Shooting plan
Pick up equipment from school on the 8th of January so I can practice different lighting set ups since the majority of the footage would be taken at home.
Day One of Filming: 9/01/2019
Day two of Filming: 10/01/2019
Day three of Filming: 11/01/2019
Scene One – Cast needed: Only camera person
Starting point: 4 secs into the song
Lyrics: N/A only instrumental
Starting point: 16 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Thought I found a way,
Thought I found a way out.
But you never go away,
So I guess I gotta stay now.’’
Scene Three – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 36 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’ Oh, I hope someday I’ll make it out of here
Even if it takes all night or a hundred years
Need a place to hide but I can’t find one near
Wanna feel alive, outside I can fight my fear.’’
Scene Four – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:12 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Isn’t it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bones
Hello, Welcome home.’’
Scene Five – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:32 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Walkin’ out of town
Lookin’ for a better place
Something’s on my mind
Always in my headspace’’
Scene Six - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:47 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’But I know someday I’ll make it out of here
Even if it takes all night or a hundred years
Need a place to hide, but I can’t find one near
Wanna feel alive outside I can fight my fear’’
Scene 7 - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 2:22 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Isn’t it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bones
Hello, welcome home.’’
Scene 8 - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 2:40 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Woah, Woah
Hello, Welcome Home.’’
Dance scene
Day One of Filming: 9/01/2019
- Practise setting up equipment
- Taking equipment apart
- Making sure all parts are correct and nothing is missing – In conclusion I realised I missed one spare battery for the Gimbal and two stands for the lights.
Day two of Filming: 10/01/2019
- Shoot the scenery of the pool from light to dark
Day three of Filming: 11/01/2019
Scene One – Cast needed: Only camera person
Starting point: 4 secs into the song
Lyrics: N/A only instrumental
- Close shot of walking out of the car from a POV slowly
- Changing the shot into a long shot of the house and walking towards the elevator
- Push the button of the elevator in a close-up shot
- Film close up of the elevators buttons going from floor 1 to 5
- Film from the second main door to the main door of my house
Starting point: 16 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Thought I found a way,
Thought I found a way out.
But you never go away,
So I guess I gotta stay now.’’
- Film Milica hand on the door knob opening the door
- Film Milica exhaling, like she is relaxed to visit her and pouring a glass of juice in a glass to showcase comfort
- Film Milica sitting down on the chair
- Film Milica looking straight at Alex
- Film from behind Milica Alex turning her head to look at Milica, like it’s from her POV
- Film a Walk up to the bathroom where Alex would be looking into the mirror with her hands placed on the sink
- Film a side angle of Alex mouthing the words ‘’Thought I found a way, Thought I found a way out’’ she has to have facial expressions which 2shows she’s withholding her emotions
- When Alex sings ‘’But you never go away’’, she has to change her angle and look at Milica sitting on the chair with disgust to showcase she means its him who never leaves
- When Alex sings ‘’So I guess I gotta stay now’’ she needs to look from a lower angle and then back into the mirror
Scene Three – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 36 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’ Oh, I hope someday I’ll make it out of here
Even if it takes all night or a hundred years
Need a place to hide but I can’t find one near
Wanna feel alive, outside I can fight my fear.’’
- Film Alex striding angrily out the door and ignoring Milica when she tries to talk to her. Milica should have a happy facial expression as she shouldn’t realise yet that she isn’t happy
- Film Alex from a side profile walking out the door seeing Milica in the back like this and entering the door that she comes out from should be the elevator, we will then see her walk out of the main doors from a side shot
- Camera person goes in circles to create an effect of Alex being lost
- Close up of Alex tilting her head left and right, when she looks right, she storms off. She has to look sad.
Scene Four – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:12 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Isn’t it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bones
Hello, Welcome home.’’
- Capture a shot of her walking and sitting on the sidewalk while closing herself into a small ball
- When she’s in the small ball position, she needs to put her head from her chin touching her knees, changing to her tucking her head
- Capture a shot of Alex sitting on the floor with her body against the bedroom door. Make her sit in a tucked small back pose, this time lift your head and look around confused and scared.
- Alex Lip singing while still sitting, ‘’Tear me to pieces, Skin to bones’’ while glancing at Milica’s
- Milica comes off the chair and touches her back
- Alex pushes her arm away and walks out of the door and closes it behind her
- Milica has a direct mode of address with the camera and opens the door
- The door that she comes out from should be the elevator, we will then two shots, one covering her face because it’s light and the other just her walking as we see her walk out of the main doors from a side shot
Scene Five – Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:32 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Walkin’ out of town
Lookin’ for a better place
Something’s on my mind
Always in my headspace’’
- Milica walks on the same road Alex was lost in
- Camera person goes in circles to create an effect of Milica being lost
- Milica sees Alex crumbled up on the sidewalk
- Milica walks over to Alex trying to see what’s wrong
- Before she reaches Alex, jump cuts to Alex walking around a wall
- Milica follows her but doesn’t see her when she reaches the corner
Scene Six - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 1:47 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’But I know someday I’ll make it out of here
Even if it takes all night or a hundred years
Need a place to hide, but I can’t find one near
Wanna feel alive outside I can fight my fear’’
- Milica sits on the pathway with her head up
- Alex peeps from the corner of the building
- Milica crumbles up like Alex did
- Film Alex from the back walking up to Milica
- Film from a side angle Alex sitting down crumbling
- Film from the front angle Alex again sitting down crumbling
- Film from a closer perspective to a wider perspective back to closer
- Make Milica look at Alex
- Make Milica look at the camera
- Film Milicas Eyes closing
Scene 7 - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 2:22 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Isn’t it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bones
Hello, welcome home.’’
- Film Milica opening her eyes
- Zoom out to see both of them sitting on the door, Milica with her head against the door
- Alex tilts her head against the door
- They look at each other at the same time, I get two shots of that, one mid shot and one long shot
- They both get surprised, they lean against the wall one on left side one on right
- They try to place their hands to touch each other
- Capture Alex’s perspective of this and Milicas perspective
- Milica disappears from a front view of me facing the door
- Alex looks around and lays on the floor looking like she’s crying
- She falls asleep take 1 roll 2
Scene 8 - Cast needed: Main Cast and camera person
Starting Point: 2:40 secs into the song
Lyrics: ‘’Woah, Woah
Hello, Welcome Home.’’
Dance scene