Monday, 22 February 2010

Camera

Opening scene-

Camera shot over looking Clive lying in bed awake waiting for the alarm to go off. He is looking up at the camera as if it's the ceiling, The shot is wide enough to see him and his wife lying in bed. It shows obvious distance between the couple. She is facing the other side asleep curled up. The camera is static at this time. It stays focussed on them in bed until the harsh sound of the alarm goes off. It then cuts to a closer shot on the same level of his wife Tracey waking up and screaming for Clive to turn the alarm off. it cuts to a fed up blank expression on Clive's face. This will be a close up to show his emotion. A quick edit and close up shot shows Clive's hand smacking the button on the top of alarm clock to switch it off. He sits up and a medium shot of him is shown wearing stripy blue and white pajama bottoms. A close up of his feet putting on his slippers proceeds. His morning routine is then followed through the use of slow shots, whilst his wife yells at him in the background. A hand held shot is used while he plods down stairs to put the kettle on. the shot is a medium shot, again showing his blank fed up facial expression. Close up of the kettle switch and tea bag in the mug and hot water being poured in. These edits are quite quick. It is slowed down with a close up hand held of his face looking into the camera whilst pulled out of focus is Tracey screaming and arguing at him. The sound could be muffled here to suggest Clive is in his own world. The camera then follows him picking up his brown leather suitcase and walking out the front door. The minute the door closers, it's peaceful and calm.

I hope that's okay to begin with for the opening part? Let me know if people visioned it differently! :D

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