Script

After finishing my storyboard I moved on to the script of my opening sequence of my movie "The Last Few". I started after doing finishing my storyboard because I was rather skeptical with my original Idea so to see if it actually could fit into the designated time whilst portraying the same emotions I wanted the audience to feel.

I used a website called "Plot Bot" to create my script so I set my script out properly and to a format I could understand.

I used asterisks to point out stage directions of the characters so they know what exactly they need to be doing in front of the camera. and when the camera changes, it is called on the script by a -CUT-

this lets the actors and the cameraman know when to stop shooting. I use lines that are called out by "SFX:" which means what sound effects are being played through the scene.

For my first scene I wanted the shot to start of with an extreme closeup of a zombies eye and for it to zoom out into a normal closeup, only showing the zombies neck and head. This is used as a stage direction for the camera and for the zombie which will be stationary in the center of the screen. As mentioned in the storyboard post, this is so the audience thinks that the extreme closeup is of a human, which is drastically changed by the time the camera has zoomed out to a closeup shot. This is to let the audience know that this is clearly a zombie movie.

After that I use stage directions to show when the main character (Ben Lloyd) Enters the scene and from what direction.

For my Interior Car Scene I wanted to use a Sound bridge of the two characters laughing to transition between the two shots, this would be used to move the shot from the Exterior Scene to the Interior Scene, this effect would be used as it would be good practice to learn when to and when not to use sound bridges to add emotion to a cut.

After this the two characters have a conversation on how lucky they are to be alive right now and I use indentation of the word "-CUT-" tells me that i will cut the edit to the other camera the other side of the car.

The next scene was crucial to the character development of Ben Lloyd, This scene starts with a low, wide shot which was intended to only show the characters feet as the car stops right in front of the camera, this quickly cuts to the character Jason walking towards a body which was propped up against an embankment to the side of the road with a rifle beside it, this scene was supposed to build up tension just before the next scene where the body quickly gets up and bites Jason on the neck, a wound which in later scenes kills him. 

This scene takes place straight away from previous scene, as the two characters are in the car, starting with match on action of  Ben Lloyd opening the glove compartment in the car to retrieve a rag to put over the wound on Jason's bite wound. Half way through this scene we see a fade which is used to show time progression has happened and that Jason looks more like he is about to die than previously seen. My initial intention for this scene was to use makeup on the character to give him a more pale, ill look to him with darker eye sockets to show how fragile the character has become because of the wound, something closer to what could be deemed more realistic if they were bitten by a zombie in real life. 

For the final scene, We have a transition from the last scene to the next via a fade to black, this is to show a short time jump to Jason's Dying scene. This starts of with an over the shoulder shot of Jason looking back on Ben as he grabs something from the car, quickly cutting to Ben walking up to Jason and holds out a gun to him. This is supposed to be a kind gesture to Jason as he stated in the previous scene that he wants to go out his own way. The significance of this scene is to show that Jason was a strong enough character to end his own life rather than force Ben to do it or let himself turn, something. This was to show that the world has lead astray too much from reality and that they could possibly never come back to a normal society.