Planning:Shotlists

Shot 1:

Long Shot of the main character in bed asleep. We cannot see her face, as she is facing in the other direction to the camera.

Shot 2:

Close Up of the main character in bed. She is still looking away, as the camera tracks in.

Shot 3:

Close Up of alarm clock ringing to signal to the main character that it is time to get up for college.

Shot 4:

Close Up of main character turning off the alarm whilst still facing away from the camera.

Shot 5:

Close Up of main character’s hand on the alarm clock turning it off.

Shot 6:

Close Up of the main character’s eye being rubbed.

Shot 7:

Close Up of the main character’s mouth, while she is yawning.

Shot 8:

Long Shot of main character’s legs. We can see that she is sat on her bed, ready to move.

Shot 9:

Medium Close Up of the main character beginning to walk across her bedroom. The camera is at a low angle, and starts to pan to under the bed. We still at this point do not see her face.

Shot 10:

Long Shot of the girl walking out of the room. The camera here, has panned to a position under the bed where we can watch her walking out of the room.

Shot 11:

Medium Close Up of the main character in the mirror. The camera pans up from the floor to see her face in the mirror. The camera begins to zoom in.

Shot 12:

Close Up of the main character’s facial expression. We can see that she isn’t looking good, and that she isn’t pleased with her appearance.

Shot 13:

Medium Close Up of the main character looking to her left (on camera, our right). We can tell that she is thinking about something quite intently.

Shot 14:

Close Up of the hair straighteners, we can tell from this shot and the shot before that these are the solution to the main character’s not-so-perfect appearance.

Shot 15:

Close Up of the main character as she pulls and plays with her hair, debating still what can she do with her hair to make herself look a bit better.

Shot 16:

Close Up of the main character’s face doing the same as above, but whilst this is happening the camera will pan to the left, in time with her eye movement which will be doing the same as the camera.

Shot 17:

Close Up of the other side of the main character’s face, as the camera will have panned from the left with her eye movement. The camera will then pan  to the right again.

Shot 18:

Medium Close Up of the whole of the main character’s face again, as this will be the last time we see a shot of her not looking good. The camera then carries on to pan around, not focusing on her face.

Shot 19:

Long Shot of the bathroom where the girl is getting ready. The camera will pan around the room.

Shot 20:

Medium Close Up – The camera will have continued to pan until a shot of the main character comes on screen looking much better than she did before. The camera will have panned in from the right.

Shot 21:

Close Up of a title screen, saying about the production company who has made this film opening sequence.

Shot 22:

Close Up of another title screen, this time it will be saying something along the lines of ‘Starring’ which will then be followed by...

Shot 23:

Close Up of a title screen, this time containing the names of people who starred in the sequence.

Shot 24:

Long Shot of the main character as she walks along the road, on her way to college. The camera pulls out slowly as she moves.

Shot 25:

Medium Close Up of the girl’s face probably looking quite startled, and quite confused as to who is tooting the car horn at her.

Shot 26:

Long Shot of the car, in which the male character, who the main character is interested in, is sitting in the passenger’s seat. From this shot we should be able to see the male character, but not incredibly clearly.

Shot 27:

Close Up of a title screen, this will show the main title in a puddle which will then fade.

Shot 28:

Close Up of the car’s wheel as it splashes through quite a big puddle. The shot shows the splash.

Shot 29:

Medium Close Up of the water splash getting the main character soaked.

Shot 30:

Long Shot of the main character gasping because the water has just wet her. In this shot we see her soaked from head to toe, and this shot will show her horror that she has just been drenched.

Shot 31:

Close Up of the male character’s foot as he steps out of the car. The camera in this shot will slowly start to begin to pan upwards.

Shot 32:

Long Shot of the whole of the male character’s body, the camera will have panned up to this shot of the whole of him.

Shot 33:

Long Shot of the main character standing after seeing the male character getting out of the car, we get the impression from this shot that she lusts after the male character. The camera is panning into her face gradually.

Shot 34:

Close Up of the main character’s face, this will show her facial expression in more detail and will further emphasise the point that she lusts after the male character.

Shot 35:

Long Shot of the male character walking into the college. This will be the shot, and the reverse shot will be as follows...

Shot 36:

Medium Close Up – this shot will be the reverse shot to the shot above. It will show the girl character looking upset as the male character will not even aknowledge her, let alone apologise for getting her wet.

Shot 37:

Long Shot of the girl walking into the college. The camera will follow this.