Final Version Of My Film Opening "THE RUN"

The Brief - Unit 41

The brief:
The titles and opening of a film in genre of the candidates own choice, to last between two to three minutes. The film opening should include a short narrative which introduces the characters and is a prologue to the film.

Genre Mind Map

Treatment P1 a)

Synopsis 

Title: The Run

Characters: Victim

                  Villain (face never seen in the film) (enigma)

Target audience: Teenagers and older people from 16-40

Location (filmed in the dark) : Forest

                                               Football Field

                                               House

                                               Bedroom

                                               Kent Uni. Campus

Approximately running time: 2m 30sec

We chose our medium to be DSLR Canon 7D, HDV 1080p. The setting that we used in Adobe Premiere Pro was HDV PAL 1080p and 24 fps. We chose aspect ratio to be 16:9.

The main hero runs from somebody who is not seen. He runs through different locations and finally reaches the room where the person that was chasing him is seen.

Scene 1: Titles with backgrounds showing Canterbury at night.

Scene 2: Running away from Kent Uni. to Kent College.

Scene 3: Running through the doors within the building.

Scene 4: Hiding from murder in the room. 

                    

Scene 1: Titles appear. Names of producer, actors, director are shown. Different views of Kent Uni. Adobe after effects is used to add a scary background behind the first title.

Scene 2:  (Will need to be filmed in the dark) Starts in the forest road, camera held by person to make an effect that the audience is running with him. Techniques such as jump cut, continuity editing, overlapping edit Shots from different angles: Long shot, Low angle + medium close up, camera still, person running past the camera…  Around 40 seconds of how the main character is running away. He leaves the Kent Uni. campus and crosses a dark scary field. Character crosses the road and almost gets hit by the car. He is still scared to death, he runs through the arc and knocks a random pedestrian not paying attention on him (pedestrian is Kodolov Nikita)
After this he reaches the door of the building (Kent College) and the scene 2 ends.


Scene 3: Scene starts from the character opening the door and appearing in the building. We will make a shot as he pulls on the door from the outside and then make a different shot from the inside when he will be walking through the door, so we will use the continuity editing technique. George runs into the building through the door and reaches another door. He opens it, runs into and appears in another room. Settings: Dark/Night/Scary room. George runs towards the door with a code on it. He enters the code around 2 times as he does it wrong for several times. Then rushes inside the dark corridor and breaks in the random door.

Scene 4: Dark scary room. George falls down near the table. He is sitting/ hiding from something, scared, intense music. Acting skills of the actor applied to show the intensity of the situation and fear of the actor. Someone knocks on the door, tries to open it. Over the shoulder shot is used to show that the actor faces the door and is very emotionally breathes. Actor slowly turns his head towards the door, unexpected sound and strange person suddenly appears. This is the person that was chasing George through all the film opening. It looks scary and the George covers his face screaming. The strange person moves towards George intending to kill/harm him. Dark background appears instantly and the title slowly appears on the dark background "The Run"

Script P1 b)

"The Run"

Fade in.

Scene 1

Stage Direction

INT

Horrifying music and sound effects.

Background designed with help of Adobe After Effects with title:”Kent College Presents”

Titles "GH production" “Producer Nesterenko Nikita”, “Starring George Danilyants”,”Director Kodolov Nikita” with shots of Canterbury at night as a background.

Fast fade out.

EXT.

Scene 2
EXT.

Stage Direction

Intense music.

Black background is held for a couple of seconds.

The main character is running away through the Kent Uni campus, forest and a football field. Shots are taken from different angles and different shooting techniques are used: pan, low angle, high angle, long shot, medium close up, extreme close up.

The main character is running through the forest on a path and through the football field, tripping and falling a couple of time. Actor shows emotionally that he is terrified that someone is following him, however there is no one seen chasing him. He crosses the road with cars driving past. Runs through the arc knocking a pedestrian on his way. Approaches the door of the building.

Scene 3

INT. (Gamon House and main building)

Shot is taken from the inside as the main character enters the building from the outside. He runs through the one room and goes trough the another door.

Character runs through the room towards another door. He is struggling to open the door and close up of his face show the emotions which he is experiencing. Character opens the door enters a dark corridor and quickly enters another door.

Scene 5

INT (Gamon House Bedroom)

Stage Direction

The main character is in the same position as in the first scene. We hear a knocking on the door and once again the character turns his head towards the door. Over the shoulder shot of the door. Extreme close up of his face is zoomed out as he is nervously looking at the door. Character is showed in medium close up sitting on the floor. As the character is showed in medium close up the light suddenly go off. When the light is on after a second dark figure stands in front of the main character. Sudden horrifying music. He starts screaming and covers his face with his arms.Black background appears. The title “The Run” starts slowly appearing on the black screen.

Fade out. 

Storyboard P1 c)

This was the first of the storyboard but in the process of making our film opening we changed some of our ideas and so I have created a new storyboard which is later in this post.  

Here is a final storyboard that we have used when filming our film opening.

Set Designs P1 d)

So this is the picture of George sitting and hiding from the stranger.

This is how exactly will the corridor where George will run looks. 

On the left there is a picture of the field and the path that George will make across it. On the right there is another picture that shows the field. 

Here is the park in the Kent Uni campus where George will run to get to the field.