Main task 4a- Plot Development

This is the timeline for the 'Girl with the dragon tattoo' opening:

Timing        Description

0.07-         'Columbia pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures present'
0.09-         'A Scott Rudin Yellow Bird Production' , in the background appears metal objects/bars.
0.12-         'A David Fincher Film', the background shot of dark black water.
0.15-         'David Craig'
0.18-         'Rooney Mara' background shot of black liquid or water going across the screen.
0.21-         'The girl with the dragon tattoo' appears and black liquid covers this title'
0.24-         'Christopher Plummer' with image of keyboard in background'
0.28-          'Stellan Skarsgard'
0.33-          'Steven Berkoff' image of animated person/manniquen like'
0.36-          'Robin Wright'
0.39-          'Yorick Van Wageningen'
0.41-          Image of something on fire
0.44-          'Joely Richardson' with cables/phone chargers running through it
0.50-          'Geraldine James' lit match falling from above
1.03-          'Goran Visnjic' Wax/manniquen image
1.08-          Image of animated bird on fire
1.14-          'Casting by Laray Mayfield'
1.18-          'Costume designer Trish Summerville' image of person sinking in water
1.23-          'Co-producers  Berna Levin, Eli Bush'
1.38-          'Director of photography, Jeff Cronenweth' with manniquen person being destroyed
2.04-          'Flower growing, surrounded by black liquid'
2.09-          'Screenplay by Steven Zaillian' image of wasp
2.21-          'Directed by David Fincher' images of arms reaching out of water/liquid.

Timeline for our film

Below is the timeline for the opening sequence my group are making. It inclues a detailed description of what is happening at each point in the sequence up to the end which is 1 minute 40 seconds. The description includes mise-en-scene and what camera shots and sizes are used. This can be helpful as a starting point to producing a shot list.

Synopsis

• Title of the film:- School's out
• Genre:- Social comedy
• Target audience:- 12 years old+
• Logline:- 'Two opposite students are tasked with finding the missing people from their school.'
• Full synopsis:- There are two students, both with different personalities and interests, a 'geek' and a 'popular' student who both wake up in school with little regonition of what has just happened. They realise the whole school is missing apart from them two. They both try and find everyone by searching around the school, but they didn't realise that a earthqauke alarm went off. By looking around the school, they are trying to find clues from everyone's whereabouts, along their way they learn about eachother and become closer from this'.
• Opening sequence outline:- It will start off with the students waking up, looking confused to where they are, and they will be shown to get up and leave the classroom, and then go to the previous classroom they were once in.