How Our Film Changed

We abolished the establishing scene, which was outside, because we thought that it would be poor continuity, as the rest of the film will be indoors. We changed it to:

Shot 1: Sophie walks round a corner, which is the first time she is seen on camera, followed by Stalker

Shot 2: Handheld camera, from the stalker’s point of view, which worked quite well as it created the suspense and anxiety. Shot 2, and the two shots after them, were essentially the same scene, but with different shots. The 2^nd shot was handheld camera from the Stalker’s point of view, the 3^rd was an over the shoulder shot following the Stalker following Sophie, and as she turns down some stairs, he does too. 4^th shot is a high angle shot of them both walking down the stairs and turning a corner.

Shot 5: Sophie steps over the camera, walking forwards a few paces, then the Stalker steps over the camera, and follows her.

Shot 6: Mid-shot, and we see Sophie’s torso pass the camera, and then the Stalker’s torso pass.

Shot 7: Close up of Sophie turning around, looking scared, (Jumps into Shot 8)

Shot 8(Jumped to from Shot 7): High angled shot, where she is still looking back, but turning away and walking forwards.

Shot 9: Mid-shot of Sophie walking towards the office door.

Shot 10: Extreme Close Up of Sophie’s hand going towards door.

Shot 11: View from inside office, door handle is pushed down, Sophie walks half way in

Cut to:

Shot 12: High angled shot of Sophie walking in fully and closing the door.

Shot 13: Mid Shot of Sophie sitting down in front of Millie

Shot 14: Stalker in background, Sophie looks, says “I think there’s someone following me” Millie Says “Are you sure you’re not being paranoid again?” “Yeah, come look, he’s standing right outside” Sophie stands up, as does Millie, and they both walk to the door and look

Shot 15: Over the shoulder shot of both of them looking out of the door, to see that the Stalker is not there. Sophie says “He was there just a minute ago!”

Shot 16: High angled shot of Sophie and Millie sitting back down

Shot 17: Over the shoulder shot from Sophie’s perspective, of Millie saying: “Don’t worry about it, I’m sure it will all be fine”

Shot 18: Over the shoulder shot from Millie’s perspective, of Sophie saying: “Yeah, it’s probably just my imagination”