Completed Film

Target Audience

My short film is intended to be for between 10-25 year olds. There is little conversation and this can lead to a boring action sequence however I hope that the acting is relevant for 10-25 year olds and the story.

Another example

Here we see a brilliant storyboard showing a scene from the Matrix.

It shows Neo and Trinity walking into a room to meet Morpheus. This is just before Neo decides whether to take the blue pill or the red pill in the first of the Matrix trilogy.

Scene 1: Shot in mid shot (MS) it starts with Neo and Trinity standing outside the door.

Scene 2: Match on action (MOA) of Neo and Trinity walking through the door, still shot in MS.

Scene 3: MS carries on with Morpheus facing outside the window.

Scene 4: MOA of Morpheus turning round and facing the camera. The shot has now gone into a close up (CU).

Scene 5: This is shot in a MS scanning most of the room and including all three cameras.

Scene 6: This shot shows Neo sitting down in MS.

My Video Idea

This is my idea. It starts off with someone sitting at a table, with a close-up shot of a watch, ticking away. It cuts back to the person who is sitting at the table, zooming in closer and closer. It then cuts to a medium close up of the person looking sad. We then see another person, outside the room, walking down the corridor towards the door and turning the handle. He walks through the door and a Math On Action shows him walking through the door the other side of the door. He sits down, whilst obeying the 180 degree rule and dialogue ensues with a shot/reverse shot.

Altogether, I expect this scene to last around 30-45 seconds and therefore should not get too tedious to watch. It will be constant 'action'.

Analysis of a film scene

Here is the youtube link to the Batman scene where he is interrogating the Joker.

This scene does not start with someone opening a door, or crossing a room. Instead it starts with Batman standing behind the Joker, appearing when the lights turn on.

This scene uses Match On Action (MOA) and shot/reverse shot however it does not necessarily stick to the 180 degree rule. At 40 seconds, they switch place, with Batman now on the right and Joker on the left. This can be viewed as two things, either it is Batman's harsher side (more violent) or it is there to make the viewer feel uncomfortabel seen as though the circumstances are not particularly pleasant.

This scene uses the shot techniques well to emphasise difficult scenes and action, such as at 1.55 where Batman picks Joker up, this includes MOA as the camera shot changes. This is to give the viewer a better viewing of the action.