Pre-production: Shot list

 

ACT I Shot List
A shot list is a document that describes each shot within a film or video to map out everything that will happen in a scene.
Shot #	Description/Action Line	Camera Shot (Shot size and angle)	Composition of Shot and Camera Framing	Camera Movement	Sound (Music, Dialogue, sound effects.)
1	The school	Establishing shot	Piper high school sign in the middle of the screen, the actual school in the back.	Slowly panning from left to right	Students chattering
2	The courtyard	Wide shot	The courtyard showing students walking	Slowly moving up	Students chattering
3	Cuts to black to reveal the film production	No shot	The production name	No movement	A dramatic bum, bum, bum
3	Blair walking into the courtyard	Tracking shot from behind	The back of Blair’s head, everything else blurred	Moving with Blair	Light, calming music as Blair narrates over it
4	Revealing what Blair looks like	Tracking shot	Blair’s face is in frame, blurring the rest out	Moving around from the back of her head to the front	Still calming music as Blair continues to narrate
5	Blair sits down by the others on the ground	Static shot	Blair, Hazel, and Jeremy all sat down in a semi-circle at the bus loop	No movement	Narration stops, as well as the music, revealing the light chatter in the background
6	The misfits’ faces up to the bullies’ faces	Tilt-up shot	The misfits’ faces are the main center before the bullies come in frame	Tilts up from the three misfits and to the bullies	Ominous music starts
7	The bullies pick on the misfits	Dolly out shot	The bullies and the misfits	Moving back from the groups	Ominous music continues, the bullies picking on the misfits
8	Shifting between the three misfits talking in front of the theater	Medium close-up shot	The misfits’ faces	Cutting between the three faces	Ominous music stops, replaced with the light noise of crickets and bugs in the background as they talk
9	Blair smirking	Extreme close-up shot	Blairs’ mouth	No movement	Sounds stop, Blair chuckles lightly
10	Rachel (bully one) gets a text message from an unknown number	Extreme Close-up shot	Rachel’s phone, everything else blurred	No movement	A soft hum from Rachel, before she scoffs
11	Rachel walks towards the room she was instructed to go to	Tracking shot from in front	Rachel’s face, background blurred	Walking with Rachel towards the room	Footsteps and light shuffling
12	Rachel opening the door	Medium shot	Rachels’ body from the waist up, background blurred	No movement	Doorknob rattles and a creaking noise from the door
13	Rachel walks in, looking around	Wide shot	Rachel walking in, everything visible	Slowly panning from the door to the rest of the room	Rachel calls out a ‘Hello?' shuffling coming from behind her
14	The back of Rachel’s head before panning to the side, revealing Blair behind her with a knife	Close-up/Pan shot	The back of Rachel’s head, before shifting to reveal her and Blair behind her	Slowly moving from the back of Rachel’s head to the side of her and Blair	Heavy breathing from Rachel, a knife sheathing out of a holder
15	Cuts to black	No shot	Nothing	No movement	A loud scream from Rachel
16	The misfits walking out of the room and away from it	Static shot	The misfits as they walk out of the room	No movement, watching the misfits come out of the room	Ominous music, faint footsteps

Reflection-

For this assignment i finished this whole thing with assist from my teammates