Maddie, Neave and I (my group for the opening title sequence) did a step-by-step for our opening scene to help visualise it, and to help with our storyboards. We worked together on this.
1. A female detective walks into a house (the lodge boarding house at school). She is walking in front of the camera whilst the camera follows her in using a tracking shot.
2. Once inside, the detective hears heavy breathing. We would use a close up on her face, to see her facial expressions.
3. The detective starts to follow the heavy breathing, we would go back to using the tracking shot.
4. The detective finds a young girl/boy heavily breathing, close to death. We would use an extreme long shot to get the detective and the body in the frame.
5. The detective then kneels down to the body – camera height changes so that the camera is at the height of the detective.
6. The girl/boy close to death struggles to say, “He’s still here”. We would use a close up on the girl/boy’s face as they say the line.
7. Extreme close up on detectives face to show her change in emotion through facial expressions.
8. Then, a point of view angle from the detective’s perspective of the boy/girl fighting for their life, finding it difficult to breathe.
9. The camera slowly zooms out into an extreme long shot of the detective slowly grabbing her gun in her back pocket.
10. Detective slowly stands up and turns. We would use a mid-shot.
11. Detective puts her gun in a position ready to shoot from, still using a mid-shot.
12. As the detective begins walking around again, the camera goes into a POV angle.
13. Hand-held camera movements as she is walking around the house cautiously (still holding her gun ready to shoot).
14. As the detective turns into another room, it goes back into POV angle.
15. The murderer is standing right in front of her (still POV angle).
16. The camera changes to an extreme long shot of the murderer walking towards the detective holding a bloody knife.
17. The detective shoots the man with zero hesitation. Extreme close up.
18. Shot reverse shot as it happens.
19. To show the man’s dead body, we would use a long shot.
20. Cuts back to the female detective, unfazed by the events.
21. The camera switches to a low angle, as the female detective turns her back away from the body, only to quickly and suddenly turn back and shoot the body again.
22. Slow zoom in on the dead body using a long shot.
23. Camera goes into a low angle of the female detective walking away, back towards the door in which she entered. Sound of her boots or heels against the squeaky floorboards is prominent.
24. Background goes out of focus as she exits the house, and the sounds of ambulance sirens get louder as they slowly approach the crime scene.
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