Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Timeline for the final film

1. Opens with a static shot of red wall. Main character walks left to right into the shot. He starts getting ready. Camera pans down to the bed as he sits down. Pan up to him standing and then walking out of the shot. Sound of door slamming.
2. On the stairs, as he walks down he puts his red t-shirt on. Shot from the bottom of the stairs, he walks down into the camera and blacks out.
3. Cut to him outside his house stood still, hesitating or putting on sunglasses etc. Female with red bag walks past lens, with the red bag filling the screen.
4. Keep following the bag with a tracking shot, until the camera stops, she walks out of frame and we see a guy emerging from a telephone box, lighting a cigarette. He drops the lighter on the floor.
5. Cut to floor level shot of the lighter on the pavement. Woman in red shoes walks past, and the camera follows her feet walking down the street.
6. After a few seconds we see a box on the floor. When the feet pass, the camera follows the man picking up the box, back to normal height.
7. Man with box is walking away from the camera and sits beside our main protagonist from the beginning of the film on a bench. Protagonist, who had been reading a newspaper, then gets up and hails a bus. Fade to black.
8. Fade in. Camera follows the main character getting off the bus. Cut to a POV shot from inside a ‘chip shop’ looking at the man get off the bus. It then looks down at his chips and squirts ketchup on them. He leaves the shop.
9 Cyclist crosses protagonist’s path wearing a red jumper.
10. Cyclist stops at red light, and a runner goes across the crossing with a red ipod armband and red shorts.
11. Cut to a tracking shot beside the runner. He looks over at a woman wearing a red dress. The camera follows his line of sight and focuses on her.
12. The woman continues to walk holding a red envelope which she then proceeds to post.
13. Cut to a doormat inside someone’s hallway. The same red envelope has reached its destination and drops on the mat beside a set of keys. POV shot of a male picking up the keys, walking outside and going to unlock his car. As he is about to get in he looks up and sees a red car passing him. The camera follows this and we use an overexposed spin as a transition.
14. Cut to a photographer taking pictures. The camera follows what he is taking pictures of, a couple on a bench.
15. The couple are kissing, the woman has red lipstick on.
16. A man walks past on a red phone. Cuts to the person at the other end of the phone looking out of a terrace house window. We see the main character walk past the window.
17. The character puts the phone down and answers the door to the main character. Fade to black.

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