Friday, 19 October 2012

Rough Script of film trailer

This post is a rough idea of what will be happening in the film trailer. The timings  and what will be contained in the shots will be refined and things will be added to the trailer to lengthen it.

1. Animation of producer that made the movie (fictional) 0.00-0.03
2.Establishing shot of street opening arrest scene will be in. 0.04-0.05
3. Long shot of crowd of people 0.06-0.07 (Detectives, Criminal, Civilians who came to watch)
4.Close up of Northcott's boss congratulating him on catching the criminal 0.08-0.09
5.Cut to close up of criminal struggling whilst the congratulation is going ahead 0.10-0.13
6. Cut to Northcott saying something along the lines of "It's what I do"..."It's what I'm good at" etc. 0.14-0.15

EDIT- In refined Script post, this scene may include shots of all the main characters as is conventional with film trailers.


1. Shot of Northcott, his partner and his boss walking into an office, throwing envelope on table 0.16-0.18
2. Close up of envelope on the table 0.19-0.20
3. Medium Close of of Northcott explaining "With this new evidence we will be able to blow this drug gang right over. 0.21-0.24
4. Fades into Northcott and his partner leaving saying "See you tomorrow," to boss. 0.25-0.26


Text shot on black background saying "When a crime..." 0.28-0.29
Low angle shot of boss looking at envelope, slowly zooming towards him, fades out 0.30-0.32
Text shot on black background saying "Goes deeper than anyone thought possible..." 0.33-0.34
High angle shot of envelope on table, slowly zooming in, fades out 0.35-0.37
Text shot on black background saying "Loyalties will be tested..." 0.38-0.39


Northcott gets phone call from boss at home saying "Someone else is on the case" and him replying in disbelief 0.39-0.42
Shot of boss putting phone down and destroying evidence 0.43-0.45


Text on a black background saying "Friendships will be stretched" 0.46-0.47
Northcott speaking to his colleague his colleague insisting something is wrong 0.48-0.50
Northcott's colleague telling Northcott to "Let is go" 0.51-0.53


Text on black background saying  "Rivalries will form" 0.54-0.55
Shot of Northcott marching up to Sylvester 0.56-0.57
Shot of Northcott demanding to know what is going on 0.58-0.59
Shot of Sylvester grabbing Northcott's shirt (less than a second)
Close up of Northcott as bosses Sylvester explains "Back off while you can, this goes deeper than you know 1.00-1.03

High angle shot of Northcott sat on a sofa with his head in his hands at home 1.04-1.05
MCU of Northcott's wife asking him "Why can't you just let this go"  1.06-1.08
MCU of Northcott who says "This is my job" 1.09-1.11

Scenes
Tracking Shot from behind of Northcott chasing hooded figure 1.12-1.14
Shot of Northcott running around a corner before being hit in the face 1.15-1.17
Black screen with Northcott Breathing in the background 1.18-1.20
High angle shot of of Northcott bloody, kneeling on the floor with a club/blunt object in front of his face 1.22-1.24
Title of Movie appears here 1.25-1.26
List of producers and actors appears 1.27-1.28

Northcott's Voice Over
"And I won't give up on this..."
"...even if it kills me"




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