Film Trailer: Shot List

This is just a more detailed version of the list I had previously. This time it's written with shots and more detailed imagery 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.”