Filming plan

Filming Plan

03/09/2018

(a) Homeless scenes

Location: Dark ally way
Actors: William, teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: Street lamp (possibly touches too)
Costume: Baggy, dark clothes, ripped and messy
Make up and hair: tatty beard and hair, and mud on face and hands

Scenes:
1) duration of 5 seconds, cut to a close up of the 'tramp's' eyes, He opens his eyes suddenly, seeming distressed and he closes them immediately, squeezing them very tight.
2) duration of 10 seconds, shot establishing location. Point of view Long shot of the ally way, from the homeless mans perspective, he the looks down at his muddy hands, turning them over and then making a tight fist
3) duration of 5 seconds, a point of view medium-close up shot of the bear lying on a sleeping bag in the ally way, from the mans perspective. The bear is tatty and dirty and is lying in the same position as it will be in the scene with the young girl.
4) This shot with be the only one with speech, duration of 10 seconds. An over the shoulder shot, from the bears perspective, of the man kissing the bear good night and saying "good night Katy", which will have been the name on all the daughters books and on her door.
5) duration of 5-10 seconds, beginning as a medium-close up on the bear and the homeless man lying together on the sleeping bag, the camera will pan out revealing the whole location.


(b) Business man scenes
Location: Big, empty house - girl's room, living room and hallway
Actors: William, Emily and teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: high key, bright lighting, quite unnatural
Costumes: William - Business suit  Emily - children's pyjamas
Make up and hair: William -  neat, slick back hair, clean shaven  Emily - two braids, no make up
Scenes:
1) Duration of 15 seconds, Long shot of William entering the house, takes his jacket off and puts a record on the player, (close up 5 second shot of the needle touching the record as the music begins) at this point diegetic music will begin to play.
2)Duration of 30 seconds, continuous shot with a lot of camera movements. Emily comes down the stairs to greet William, holding the bear, the bears face is blocking her own. William hugs Emily and picks her up, and over the shoulder shot shows Emily's shoulders and hair as she hugs William but the bears face still blocks her own. William then gestures for Emily to go back to bed and she does so.
3) Camera follows William as he walks around the house, he sits on the sofa and the camera leaves him, showing the house. There will be a long panning shot across the mantle place, showing the family photographs in frames. The panning shot will slow on each photograph. Each photograph will be of William and Emily doing a variety of things, however in all of the photographs, Emily's bear blocks her face.
4)Hand held camera shot following William as he walks up the stairs. He enters the bathroom and the door closes, straight cut to his them standing in front of the mirror, the camera looking toward William from the mirrors perspective. William splashes water on his face and closes his eyes. There will be 'glitchy' editing effect, where two shots (1a & 4b) will be layered on top of each other.
5)William will open his eyes again, he is still in the bathroom. He seems very distressed, the camera will still be positioned in the mirrors perspective. He will open a cupboard in the mirror, which will move the camera along with the mirror. William will then take a bottle of pills out of the cupboard and close it, returning the camera to its original position. He will take 2 pills franticly, swallow them and then again look into the camera. (ambient sounds will be included over diegetic music).
6) Another hand held shot of William walking through the corridor to his bed room, he will stop and look down the corridoor, this shot will then cut to and over lap shot, before cutting back to Williams hands in the house.
7)A hand held tracking shot will then follow William as he turns around and goes to Emily's room.
8)There will be a 10 second duration shot showing Emily in bed hugging her bear, again her face will not be shown.
9) close up shot of William will show him smile with tears in his eyes.
10) Camera positioned at the bottom of the bed, William slowly lies down in bed with Emily.
11)over the shoulder shot from Williams perspective will show Emily rolling over to face William, bear still blocking her face. William will lean forward and kiss the bear on the cheek.
12) shot duration of 5 seconds, medium close up shot of the bear being held by Emily. This shot will overlap with and cut to shot 3a. Next will be shots 4a&5a.