Evaluation

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Opening credits for pulp fiction

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Schedule

February 11th – Start researching genres and discussing which genres to use
February 25th – Further discussion about genres and basic written outline to story
March 4th – Start researching films online with same style of genre
March 11th – Finish researching different films and draw up draft storyboard with basic instructions
March 18th – Start to draw up storyboard and find locations
March 25th – Review locations and draw up finished storyboard
April 15th – Start filming
April 22nd – Finish filming
April 29th – Start editing
May 6th – Finish editing
May 13th – Evaluate

After the opening sequence, the first shoot is a close up on a ringing phone in what appears to be someone’s living room with a heartbeat edited over the top. After the phone has rang once, a hand picks it up and the camera moves to revile the woman who has answered it. The shot that is used on the woman is a mid-shot focusing on her answering the phone. In the same shot there is small dialogue between her and the person on the phone, after she says hello the camera zooms into a close up shot of the woman who now realizes that it is a wrong number. The next shot follows her walking away from the phone and camera before stopping and turning back to face the pone because it has started to ring again. During the same scene, she stops and pauses looking at the phone before walking back and answering the phone again. When she answers it this time the man on the other end admits that he has phoned the wrong number and wants to apologise, when she accepts his apology and is about to hang up he asks her not to because he wants to talk to her, but she tells him to ring someone else and speak to them and then hangs up. The following shot is of a full screen shot of a tree which slowly moves down to reveal the front of the house. After this scene, the shot cuts back into the house and into a close up of a hob being lit with a popcorn pan placed on top of it. This is followed by the camera zooming out to show the woman from before and the phone ringing again. The shot ends by the woman turning to go and answer it. Once she has picked up the phone she walks back to the kitchen followed by the camera. Once back at the hob she stops and shakes the popcorn pan before placing it back down on the hob. The camera then follows her to a table that she leans on behind her. The dialog in this scene is her talking to the other person about their favourite scary film. When she is lent against the table she starts to play with a knife whist telling the person on the other end of the line that her favourite scary movie is Halloween. Then the shot cuts back to the popcorn pan to see that it is rising, you can still hear them talking on the phone. The last shot shows the woman walking out of the room whilst still on the phone.

After the Paramount opening sequence fades and shot of the sea crashing against rocks with a love song just starting to play. After a few different shots of the sea, it cuts to a long shot of some cliffs in the foreground with the sea and a beach with two people running towards the camera together with the sun setting in the background. This scene then fades into closer shot of the two people hugging on the beach. This scene again then fades into a mid-close shot of the two people, which we can now see is a teenage man and woman, watching the sun setting out at sea then turning to face each other. Just before the scene ends they kiss. The next scene is a starts with a mid shot of the woman holding a camera witch then cuts to a long shot of the woman holding the camera trying to take a picture of the man telling the man to keep backing up witch results in him falling over a sand castle. This shot ends with the man throwing sand at the woman. This scene fades into a panning shot of the woman chasing the man into the sea. This scene fades into them kissing like the scene before. The next scene fades in of them sitting together on some rocks watching the sea, the scene ends with them soaked by a wave breaking on the rocks. The next scene that fades in, also the sound of the music lowers, starts with the woman talking to the man saying that she is afraid that she will never see him again. The man then responds with “don’t talk like that, Sandy” “but it’s true, I’ve just had the best summer of my life and now I have to go away it isn’t fair” after she has finished speaking there is a short pause before he moves into kiss her. She pushes him away saying that she dose not want to ruin the time that they have had together, but he convinces her that they will only be making it better. The scene then cuts into the title sequence

The film starts by five teenagers getting out of three different cars at what looks like an abandoned industrial park late at night, for this they use a tracking shot filming the cars as they pull up. During this scene they start talking whilst waiting for someone to arrive. The next shot shows another car pull up and another teenager gets out, with this shot there is a close up of the teenager getting out of the car. Once this shot was finished there is some more talking between them all about how one of the girls wants to go back to a party, this uses a tracking shot to switch from the close up on the teenager from the last shot to the girls that is now talking. After the tracking shot the cameraman then uses a pan shot to move to the close up of one of the other teenagers talking. After this shot the camera moves to anew car pulling up next to them and another teenager gets out, this uses another close up/pan shot of him getting out.