Step Outline Coursework

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Slugline	INT.LIVING ROOM -NIGHT
End Point in Last Scene	First Scene
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Leo James
Point of Scene	To confuse the audience and intrigue them with what is happening.
Conflict	How each character think completely different
Ending/Central Question	What are they doing that needs so much caution? Who is at the door?
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on cinematography. Tracking shots and long takes will be used. An over the shoulder shot will be used too. The scene will also contain high angle and low angle shot, pans and close up shots.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark walks into Leo's house (tracking), Mark shouts at Leo, (camera) as Mark is shouting the camera moves into a close up low angle shot of him. Mark shouts “YOU CAUSED THIS, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, YOU DID THIS" the camera shows a Dutch angle on Mark (Camera). Leo pushes Mark and moves to the right, away from him, the camera pans towards Leo as he moves away (camera). Leo shouts back "WHAT THE HELL MAN, WHAT DID I DO? YOU SAID YOU'D HANDLE IT". They hear a knock at the door and both look towards the door with confused faces as if they know but don't know how (camera).

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Slugline	INT.PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	The screen went blank after the knock at the door
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Doctor Morgan
Point of Scene	To make Mark's condition known
Conflict
Ending/Central Question	Why was he in there?
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on the character of Mark. It will show his condition and why he was in there. Mid-shots, overhead shot, close ups and long shots will help show this.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	A long shot of the exterior shows the institute where Mark is staying (Camera). The camera follows through the window showing Mark lying down on the psychiatrist's chair discussing how he feels about being released. As he speaks the camera moves to an overhead shot of Mark (Camera). The psychiatrist begins writing down with a happy look on his face, mid shot of the psychiatrist (Camera). The psychiatrist then releases him from the institute. This is shown through a close up of the paper which reads "clinically sane" (Camera).

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Slugline	INT.LEO's HOUSE-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	Mark left the institute
Characters in Scene	Leo James Lewis Taylor Billy Lloyd
Point of Scene	To establish the type character Leo is
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on the character of Leo and will establish the type of character he is. The character will be explored through the mise-en-scene e.g. the way he dresses, the way he speaks, the way his house looks and the friends he has. Close up shots, mid shots and overhead shots will help establish this.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Leo is with his friends smoking, an overhead shot (Camera) will show the smoke rising and everything that is spread throughout the room. The room is a mess, bottles, blunts, cigarette butts all around the room, the whole place is just not a nice place to be, the furniture is ripped, broken or otherwise damaged (mise en scene). The camera then switches to close ups of bottles on a low angle (Camera), with cigarette butts next to the bottles, the furniture has holes and is torn (mise en scene). The camera shifts focus (Camera) to the people behind, Leo, Lewis and James. The smoke in the room is building, no one is speaking because they are taking hits from the bong they have. Leo is wearing an oversized black, red and yellow hoodie, baggy black jeans and a beanie (mise en scene). Leo is a slim and average size person. Lewis is taller and has an average build, wearing a black jacket, baggy jeans and has messy hair. James is wearing a black and blue tracksuit and a black snapback backwards (mise en scene). The room has low key lighting (mise en scene) coming from the light bulb that is flashing above the three characters.

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Slugline	INT.PYRAMID ENT.-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	The screen reverts from spinning colours to appear
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Leo James Billy Lloyd Lewis  Taylor
Point of Scene	To show Mark's decent into psychosis
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus the editing and will show a montage of things that ended in Mark going to an asylum. It will also contain a parallel action of Mark and Leo's lives.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	The scene will begin with a backwards zooming close up of (Camera) Mark Nable, revealing his old job as a manager of the successful company (Mise en Scene), Pyramid Enterprises, the company sold weapons to the government. Leo is then shown to be a student at the time (Mise en Scene), learning about the weapons trade and the major distributors, including Pyramid Enterprises. It is shown through the long shot of the school (Camera). Next, a montage (Editing) begins with Mark being fired for misjudging the power of a weapon as shown through an email, Leo is kicked out of the college he is at which is shown through him being sent to the head and him shown to be shouting furiously then papers hit the table and zoomed in, Mark gets fined (Camera) for the damage the weapon caused shown in the mail and Leo gets an eviction notice. Mark then flips out destroying everything he can get his hands, moving outside and attacking everyone he sees with things like fence posts, car bumpers and bottles he finds on the street floor. Leo breaks down and then gets the heroin he has hidden away to calm himself down (Camera).

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Slugline	INT. MARK'S HOUSE-NIGHT
End Point in Last Scene	Montage just finished
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Jennifer Nable
Point of Scene	Mark tells his wife about his being fired and the damage he caused, with the fines
Conflict	Husband and wife financial crisis
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	The key micro element of this scene will be the sound and dialogue as it will help the narrative.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark walks into his house, tracking shot,(camera) and sits down in front of the TV, a shot-reverse-shot(Editing) of the wad of fines and bills in his hand. Jennifer asks "where did all that come from?" to which Mark replies "Work". She then asks" you were fined because of work!??" in a very temperamental way. The music at this point is slow with occasional bumps of high notes (sound). Then Mark will slowly say “I got fired." Jennifer will show incredible anger with this and say “What?? How??” Mark replies “Faulty weapon", Jennifer then says "These fines??" Mark says “Faulty weapon". Jennifer then exclaims their financial state and that they couldn't pay the fines.

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Slugline	INT.MALL-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	Switches from the Nable house to the mall
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable  Leo James
Point of Scene	Introduces the two main characters to each other
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	Cinematography is the focus of this scene and will have different types of shots. Shots such as the over the head shot, tracking shot, two shot and mid shots.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark is walking through the mall, tracking shot (Camera), and meets someone who recognises him, Leo. Two shot (camera) of them both is shown as they speak about who they are and what they've done. The next few shots will be the mid shots (camera) of both characters as each them talk.

Aims and Context

Genre: Drama; Action; Thriller; Crime
Age Rating: 15
Target Audience: 15-20 year olds
Setting: New York
Characters:Mark Nable, Leo James, Doctor Morgan, Lewis Taylor, Billy Lloyd, Jennifer Nable
Character conflict, drug related
Diegetic sound mainly with occasional spots of music

Film research

Hunger games Mockingjay Part 2

Opening Weekend $101,million in USA
Jennifer Lawrence- Mystique in X-men first class and Days of future
Liam Hemsworth-Chris Hemsworth's Brother-Chris Hemsworth is Thor in the Marvel Franchise  
Josh Hutcherson- Journey Franchise, Red Dawn 
Woody Harrelson- Zombieland- True Detective 
Sequel 
Based on a Book 
$160 million Budget 
$247 million worldwide 
Francis Lawrence is the director- He directed 2 others in the franchise 
He has had success with I am Legend 
Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins 
production company color force 
Produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik  
Distributed by Lionsgate 
It's an epic film- meaning that it is intended to sweep audiences and is meant to be huge 
this film is made for teenagers as it is a science fiction war film
This film is doing well because of it being adapted from a book and that it is a sequel to a sequel of a very successful film 

2nd film self reflection Noir sequence

The second time around the film turned out to be reasonable ok, especially compared to the first. This time we had sound, in fact we had a voiceover, a short voiceover of roughly 6 lines that described what was happening, barely. I wrote part of the script as a joint effort with one of my partners within the group. The story of this film was also created as a joint effort with all of us, we all contributed in some way. The conventions we used were a voiceover, femme fatale and we attempted a black and white filter but it didn't go well so we just ignored that. We also used the conventions for the plot, a detective, called in on a murder and has to solve the case. We had an over the shoulder shot that we used to switch from the detective to the femme fatale, a tracking shot of the detective chasing the femme fatale, a tilt to show the detective inspecting the body, a low angle of the femme fatale to show dominance and villainous and an extreme close up of the detective's eye, . We used the convention of the snappy dialogue in the voice over to add to the Neo noir feel of the film. My part in the was i acted a the detective, very poorly, I really wasn't a great actor, never have been, never will be, I tried to get this done as best i could and the film turned out better than before. Overall, the film was better than my last but still really wasn't great. We struggled with the plot as none of us was really liked the noir genre and hadn't watched much so we all just put random ideas together and ended up with this and to be honest, it shows that there wasn't much planning.

Film Studies Coursework Analysis Draft

How does the performance create excitement/tension within the "Joker crashes the party "sequence from The Dark Knight?

The sequence I chose is from my favourite film, The Dark Knight, at the end of chapter 12 and start of chapter 12. This sequence begins with Harvey and Rachael talking about their relationship, both of them are acting seriously to show that it is meaningful. The music, which is non-diegetic sound, during this builds up, it also repeats a certain amount of notes, and the notes build tension because once it reaches its climax it makes me wonder what will happen. Harvey cuts Rachael off when she tries comfort him, he gets agitated and this builds tension, along with the music combined with it because of the speed of the music and the tone of Harvey’s voice. The conversation is taken with over the shoulder mid shots of their heads, the others head is visibly but out of focus, when it cuts to Harvey after Rachael, sincerely says “Harvey”, we see an unfocused blurred figure heading towards Harvey, Harvey is within the focus and Bruce is outside the focus as he walks towards Harvey. Once we see him, Harvey says “Tell me it’s not Wayne, he’s a complete…” doesn’t finish his sentence before being knocked unconscious by Bruce, the way Harvey speaks at this point shows how he doesn’t like Bruce, later on in the film he is shown to dislike Batman when he comes under the persona of his comic book name Two-Face, a convention of the genre. After Harvey is knocked unconscious by Bruce, Rachael is completely shocked, this is shown through the mise-en-scene of her facial expression and tone of her voice, this creates tension because we already know that the Joker targeted the police commissioner, Harvey and a federal judge, and we already know that the commissioner has been poisoned through the whiskey, so we have no idea how he might get Dent, and the judge is being escorted out with an envelope. It cuts to the judge, with a close up of the envelope she is opening, as she is opening the envelope and it is shown to be a piece of paper with the word “UP” on it, this then makes her look up, the shot being a mid shot, confused, and it cuts to the people who gave her the envelope in a car, a two shot, with her car exploding in the back through the window. The people have no reaction to it, they don’t even change facial expression which gives the impression that was what they intended to do. It cuts back to the car landing and it raining playing cards, the shot is an establishing shot to show the whole are around it. The cards make me think where did they all come from.

The commissioner is next shown choking because of his drink, whilst being tended to by Detective Gordon, a convention, the music continues throughout giving a fast paced tension-filled feel. As the commissioner falls Gordon catches him, through the mise en scene Loeb creates the atmosphere of choking.

We see the car again in an establishing shot, up in flames, and then we zoom in on the cards, Joker cards, a convention and a reference to the comics, the cards are clearly not from the same deck as we see multiple backs of the cards. This sends the thought about Harvey, what will happen to him. The commissioner is again seen choking in the arms of Gordon and it becomes clear what kill him with a smoking glass in close up of it. Gordon is stressed as shown in the mise en scene of the tone his of voice and the way he attempts to save Loeb. A side on mid tracking shot of Alfred, another convention of the genre,  depth of field is only Alfred shown when everyone else is not within the focus but are shown to be having a good time as it is a party, he walks towards the elevator, it then cuts to the elevator opening with a mid shot of what we immediately assume is a police because we only have about a second to analyse the scene, the mise en scene shows someone in the background wearing eye make-up and carrying a gun. The police badge gives us a false sense of security but the sweat on the officers head shows something has made him worried and the badge isn’t even in focus. The non-diegetic music is getting faster and faster meaning that the tension will be released soon, it cuts to Bruce once again who is very agitated, shown through the mise en scene of his voice and the way he is moving, the speed of the cutting has increased as the music has increased, we see a glimpse of Rachael before seeing the police officer thrown down to the floor by the Joker as the focus changes to him, the shot remains a mid shot. We then see Bruce once again slamming the door behind him in anger, and warning Rachael to stay hidden. We then see a mid shot of both Alfred and The Joker, Alfred was meant to have a line but he had genuine fear and shock because of the way Health portrayed The Joker, had never seen him in the make-up. Once The Joker fires his shotgun, the whole room goes from happy to scared in an instant, the non-diegetic music changes to more. The Jokers voice shows how crazy the character is, the way he speaks shows signs of abnormality, when he eats the, what looks to be a strawberry, of the kebab type thing, he ignores the shrimp, and the way he eats, the way he moves his mouth, side to side also shows the abnormality of the character, the shot is a back tracking shot. When he asks about Harvey his voice shows that something isn’t right with him. When no one responds to him, he rolls his eyes in disappointment, he then begins to ask the hostages if they know, but he does it in a joking manner, true to his comic book character. The way heath uses the mise en scene of his performance when he asking the hostages, he seems as if he tries to be friendly while also about to blow their brains out, personally, i couldn't handle a situation like that. We then see Bruce attacked a henchmen, completely disarming him and knocking him out, Bruce acts as if he didn't even break a sweat in doing it and could do it in his sleep.As he walks away it reminds me of scene from another Christian bale film, American Psycho,...
The Joker is shown again, continuing his search for Harvey but hows no sympathy towards the hostages, by that i mean he doesn't treat them as you would a normal person, as normal as a hostage taker an be. then we see Bruce again, turned a corner, through a back tracking shot, and we see a couple who were what looks to be getting intimate and are now finished or not in a two shot, Wayne just walks past like nothing was happening and goes into a hole in the wall. The woman thinks that the room wayne is going into is a panic room, until wayne shuts it adding comedy to scene. Wayne's face didn't change from the moment he walked in there to the moment he went into the "panic room". We go back to the couple in a two shot, adding more comedy by their facial expressions and words "you've got to be kidding me". We then see Joker again in a mid over the shoulder shot of one of the guest at the party. When the guest tells Joker that he isn't intimidated, Joker looks confused and pulls out a knife on him, the guests face shows pure terror adding tension due to the unknowing on whether he'll kill him. You can see through the mise en scene the pure terror in his face because of the knife being so close to his face. Rachael intervenes, causing an anti-climax, when Joke looks over, he looks slowly.

The Shining Scene Analysis

Lloyd Scene

The scene begins with Jack walking down the corridor with backwards tracking long shot, the lighting is clearly from the candlelit chandelier. In the scene we hear non-diegetic music playing as he walks through the corridor, the way in which the stringed instruments are played gives the impression that something has happened and his mind isn't quite right at the moment. In the scene there is mirrors on the left side of, as he walks past this mirror his attitude changes and he becomes more angry, this is shown with him waving his arms up and down, this is also shown through his facial expression, I heard what i thought to be the sound a child makes when he doesn't get what he wants, another thing to suggest how his mind is handling the hotel. He is alone as he walks down this corridor, which could suggest his isolation. The non-diegetic music that is playing sounds as if it is trying to build tension as it gets louder. When he walks in "The Gold Room", the whole room is under low key lighting, until he turns the lights on, which then completely shows off the gold aspect of the room. It cuts to a side on tracking shot of Jack as he walks across to the bar.The room has green tables and red sofas all around the room, which is a contrast because of the connotations associated with the colours, green represents nature, growth or safety, whereas, red represents fire, blood, power so not the safest of objects. The music then begins a  diminuendo, immediately after its crescendo. The lights are on, but the room still seems to have low key lighting. the camera stops and pans across as Jack continues to walk and we see several mirrors and Jack's reflection. We then get a corner shot from the bar as he sits down and we can no longer see the mirror, he looks left and right looking for something, his sanity maybe? When he is looking we get sudden bursts of sound as he turns his head. He starts talking to himself, when he is alone, saying that he'd "Do anything for a drink" covers his face with his hands then looks directly at the camera, which happens to where the mirror was. He says "Hi Lloyd" when we know that there's no one else in the room and the camera is exactly where the mirror was. We then have a view to the side of Jack looking forward to see no mirrors but a person standing there. Whilst they are talking you can hear an echo in their voices because the room is empty, isolated. Jack mentions that Lloyd is the best bartender from Timbuktu to Portland Maine, this means Jack has seen Lloyd before, possibly because Jack is insane ,sees people and hears voices. He then starts talking to Lloyd about how he didn't hurt Danny, when he mentions Wendy, his face went from a smile to angry, could show hate towards her. Then he says that he did hurt him once, but he says it with a smile on his face,generally if someone harms their child, they don't smile about it.

Delbert Grady Bathroom scene 

At the start of the sequence we are shown a red and white bathroom, two colours with opposite connotations towards them, we also hear diegetic music play combined with the diegetic sound of their voices. When the door is about to shut the diegetic sound of the clapping after the music from the sequence before has finished, but Jack, Wendy and Danny are the only ones in the hotel.The whole bathroom is full of high key lighting. When Delbert is wiping the drink off Jack, he seems to go into the position of someone who is receiving a pat down from a police officer, this could be foreshadowing. In the scene, there are mirrors in which we cannot see either Delbert or Jack in, this could be the angle that Kubrick has chosen to obey the rule of thirds or he had them there to show how Delbert isn't actually there. It cuts to a mid shot of both of them, whilst Jack is looking through the mirror, and not at Delbert, when he is meant to be talking to him, maybe he is. When Jack is told Delbert's name his facial expression changes completely, from happy to confused to angry.He then looks in the mirror again, after asking if he has seen him somewhere before. Jack asks about his family, Grady responds with "a wife and two daughters", the two daughters we keep on seeing throughout the film and the wife ,who was in room 237. Jack seems to be acting all smug about how Grady was the caretaker even though he denies it. The scene follows the rule of thirds, as always for Kubrick. After Grady informs Jack of him being the caretaker, there's a moment of silence and confusion on Jack's face. We then get a mid shot reverse shot of the characters to show Jack's reaction to the revelation, this is to add effect on how Jack's character has developed as the film went on. This film has many racial slurs in it because of the time it was made. When they are talking about the outsider being brought in the way in which both of them are standing are completely different to each when they are meant to be the same person, this could just be all in his head. The performance by Phillip Stone is great because of how he went through this scene with basically only one facial expression, disgust due to the Danny bringing Dick into the situation. After this, Delbert tells Jack that Danny s a very willful boy, Jack continues to look back at the mirror constantly, it's as if he doesn't know what is going on. Inference is used a lot during this scene as it is not obvious, to me, what they are actually talking about. Delbert tells Jack that he corrected his twin daughters, corrected could mean correction as in death, this is shown in the way he says the word "corrected".

Genre themes and conventions

Western

Conventions

• Six shooter guns
• Cowboy hats
• Saloons 
• Horses
• Lassos

Themes

• Duels
• Bar fights
• Robberies
• Cattle herding
• Sheriffs in control 

Fantasy

Conventions

• Elves
• Magic
• Dwarves
• Unicorns
• Dragons

Themes

• Save the princess from the dragon
• Religious concepts e.g Heaven and hell
• Different worlds e.g Middle Earth
• Mythological
• Historical