A2 Media short film shot list.
Opening sequence – Ecstasy of Gold – Train track
-Black screen with the noise of a shovel being dragged across the train tracks.
-We see the shovel from a wormhole view being dragged towards a line of people in the distance.
-Camera follows the man’s shovel and legs whilst walking, slows down, and moves up above his head.
-CU of the bottom half of his face and shoulders.
-Long shot of him walking from behind.
-Tracking of the man looking up and walking towards the fence.
-Long shot from the group’s perspective of the man walk off of the railway road.
-Snap shots of each member of the groups face.
-CU of his face walking.
-High angle panning around the group. Who start walking towards the man.
-MCU of the group stopping
-MCU of the man stopping
-Side view establishing shot of all characters in a stand off at the end of the short, with the title between them.
SCENE 1- (Atmospheric joker music) – group are sitting around a table in a bar.
-Close up of a member of the group putting a pint down.
-Exposition establishing how the characters have gained the object with a slow pan around the table.
-Exposition turns into irrelevant dialogue as we have traditional 180 degree close ups.
-In the background we see a man walking up to the table. (Camera out of focus on the table leaning up.)
-Close up of the individual faces of the characters reactions.
-Shot with the killers back to the camera placing the shovel down and sitting down.
Pause.
-Medium close up of killers face.
-Introduces himself whilst grabbing a drink from one of the group.
-Shots of confused characters
-Prolonged shot of him telling the story, with a few shots of the characters reacting. When he mentions a precious thing that’s been stolen, close up of a group member pushing their bag under the table. As he gets more intense the camera dollies towards him further.
Pause.
-One of the group, chugs their drink down quickly and proclaims that they are leaving.
-The camera follows a group member from behind whilst focusing on the killer saying fee fi fo fum.
-Side shot of the bag as the group are leaving.
-Shot of the waitress cleaning a glass.
-POV shot of the killer walking up to the bar. And sitting down, putting the beer down.
-Irrelevant dialogue with some meaning between the killer and the waiter.
SCENE 2 – stretch of road – 3 members of the group.
-MCU of the group running towards a dollying camera, in a panic.
-Close ups of three of the member’s faces running.
- Intertwined with the psycho path getting into his car and driving away.
-Shot of the group running over crossroads.
-MCU dolly shot of the group running away from the camera.
-High Angle Shot of the psycho driving down the road that the group was running down, and running -out of petrol, on the crossroads.
-ECU of the empty petrol sign.
-Side shot of the psycho getting out of the car. Walking to the boot.
-Wormhole shot of the man opening the boot. And grabs the shovel.
-Back to the side shot of the man walking off with the shovel.
-MCU of the man walking toward the camera away from the car
-Long shot of the man walking away in the distance.
SCENE 3 - barn
-Multiple side shots of the group’s legs running in different locations and then putting their bags down.
-Long shot of the group sitting down from inside the barn.
-As they start talking the camera slowly pans as they are asking themselves who the man is and why he starts chasing us.
-Ali Leg starts to hurt as he screams out.
-Cameron says “you know what, fuck this I’m done, we can’t just keep running away from this guy forever.”
-Some one else says, “well what are we gonna do? He’s a psycho.”
-Cameron, “I see a whole group of my friends, here in defiance of massacre. We have come to live as -free men, and free men we are”
-Someone Interrupts “and women”
-He carries on… “ What will we do without freedom? Will you fight? Fight and you will die, run and -you will live at least awhile. would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one -chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives. “
-Someone else says, “wait isn’t that brave heart?”
-Cameron - “So? Shut up” “but they will NEVER”
-Someone else again, “well its just not really relevant”
“Oh my god let me do this, Where was I? Urgh lets just go”
-Montage of them kitting up. Last shot is Cameron clipping a helmet on.
Scene 4 – back to the stand off.
-Same shot as the last shot of the opening sequence.
-left tracking shot from behind the group.
-CU of the mans face panning.
-He picks up the shovel MCU.
-Front view of his foot stepping forward.
-‘This is it’ close up of Cameron, he takes a step forward. Group follows.
-Quick Side view of them walking towards eachother.
-Cu of groups heads
-Close up of killer
-Side view
-Ecu
-Ecu
-Side view
-Blackout.
