Film Trailer: Detailed Shot List

Every film is planned beforehand to give more detailed imagery of visuals and audio so all of us know exactly what goes where and what to film.

·         First shot of protagonist asleep in a bed – close-up of a phone ringing and the character rolling over to answer it
·         Protagonist bathed in shadow, long shot of him sitting on the edge of his bed
·         Voiceover: “Alex, they’ve taken her.”
·         Extreme close-up of the handle of a gun
·         Protagonist grabs the gun, focus pulls out
·         Long shot of the character walking out of the door – fade to black
·         Zooming out from a close-up of sign to a long shot of the protagonist walking past the New Scotland Yard building with voiceover
·         “Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don’t know, I’m Chief Superintendent Adams.”
·         Cut to meeting room – mid shot of new Chief Sup. Adams as she speaks to her new team of Detective Inspectors
·         Voiceover interspersed with cutscenes to the group of detectives listening and some fast-editing of a van pulling up on the pavement next to a small girl
·         “We’ve had an incident this morning. An eight-year-old girl has been taken from outside her school. Her father is the new CEO of IBM, so we assume ransom. We’ll be keeping this quiet – it hasn’t hit the public yet. Shaw, you’re heading this one. Let’s go.”
·         Cut to protagonist and his boss arguing in the same office later in the day:
·         “Chief, please, give me this case.”
·         “Just stop. You’re a relative. It’s not going to happen.”
·         “But Chief—”
·         “Listen, it’s in Shaw’s capable hands. Relax.”
·         Cut to a dim long shot of the protagonist and his brother on a balcony. Protagonist says: “I’ll find her.”
·         Cue fast-paced shots of walking, research, tensions rising
·         Long shot of protagonist in an alleyway with a brown envelope
·         Close-up of him pulling a picture from the envelope
·         Long shot of protagonist finding a group of people in another alley – a few leave but one, the one in the picture, remains
·         Protagonist says: “I need to know about the Hudson kid.”
·         “I don’t know anything.”
·         Close-up of the man’s face as protagonist pins him to the wall, gun-to-head, saying, “Are you sure?”
·         Fade to black
·         Fast-paced editing of long shots, protagonist running down the road with the alleyway stranger’s voiceover: “There’s got to be someone on the inside.”
·         Long shot of protagonist bursting into his boss’s office with picture ‘evidence’: “I think he’s involved.”
·         Close-up of Adams: “You’ve had it in for him since the start. Give me your badge and go home.”