Wednesday 30 January 2008

Technical Breakdown of Retribution

Below is a technical breakdown of the shots in Retribution.

0-35 seconds
Shot 1: 4 seconds - Black screen with 'In Association with Red Ink Productions' fading up and down again
Shot 2: 4 seconds - Low angle at side of road facing down road, car coming towards camera with lights on, car passing camera as title fades up and out over screen 'Directed by Angela Yaz'
Shot 3: 1 second - Slightly titled to the right angle, low level, shot of girls feet walking into and out of shot along pavement
Shot 4: 2 seconds - Slightly high angle, titled to right, still low level, shot of girls feet walking into and our of shot further along pavement
Shot 5: 2 seconds -girl steps into frame from behind camera and walks straight away from camera (steps over camera into shot), low level camera, only feet and some of legs are visible
Shot 6: 3 seconds - very low angle, low level shot, slight tilt to right, girl staggering (knee up in frame) into and out of shot
Shot 7: 8 seconds - slightly low level camera, across the road from the girl, camera moves down and behind a car - girl is staggering along road and up to her front door. Extreme long shot. Title fades up and out 'Produced by Nicholas Chin'
Shot 8: 3 seconds - insert shot of bottle being put down. Close-up, slightly high angle. Only bottom part of bottle and floor visible.
Shot 9: 8 seconds - low level shot of front door opening, medium close-up shot. Door opens and girls feet come into shot, title of 'Casting by Abigail Thompson' fades over shot and out again, keys are dropped into shot, hand comes down to pick them up, feet step over camera out of shot, lingering shot on front door still open.

36-60 seconds
Shot 10: 8 seconds - mid-level shot, medium shot, girl walks into hallway and shot from left of screen, staggers towards stairs, puts her keys on the shelf, staggers up stairs, flash of black across screen.
Shot 11: 2 seconds - Black screen, title comes onto shot 'Starring Stephanie Miller and Joshua Dean' fades into and out of shot.
Shot 12: 14 seconds - Close-up on glass, on level with desk. Pans from right to left along height of desk past alkaseltzers. Pans right to left along bed, girl is moving in bed. Tracks in towards bed as girl picks up phone. Cannot see her face.

61-91 seconds
Shot 13: 10 seconds - Close up of bedside table with ashtray and cigarettes. Can see girl's elbow in shot and bottom section of pillow and a bit of mattress. Girl is talking on phone then puts phone back on desk and fumbles for cigarettes. Pulls cigarettes out of shot.
Shot 14: 5 seconds - medium shot of girl sitting up in bed face on, takes cigarette out of box, places it in her mouth and begins to light it. Low angle.
Shot 15: 15 seconds -High angle shot, slightly behind the girl to her right. Lights cigarette, takes a drag, lays back on pillows, takes another drag. Medium shot.

92-120 seconds
Shot 16: 1 second - Shot of clock, ashtray and phone on bedside table. Close-up.
Shot 17: 2 seconds - Medium-long shot of girl pulling back covers and getting out of bed. From her shoulders/chest down. Can see to the bottom of mattress and a little bit below. Can see the bedside table. She has the cigarette in her hand.
Shot 18: 2 seconds - Low level shot of floor and bottom of bedside table. Girls feet come down into shot. Close-up shot.
Shot 19: 2 seconds - Close-up of bedside table with ashtray, phone and clock, girl's hand coming into shot and placing cigarette in ashtray before pulling it away out of shot.
Shot 20: 4 seconds - Medium shot of girl sitting on edge of bed, pulling hand away from bedside table. She gets up out of bed and walks to the left of shot and out.
Shot 21: 2 seconds - Close up of hand coming into shot on banisters and moving up banisters. Low angle. Banisters to left of screen.
Shot 22: 1second - Low level shot of floor of bedroom. Girls walks into shot from right and leaves to left. Only her feet visible, close-up.
Shot 23: 6 seconds - Close-up of table with glass and alkaseltzers on, alkaseltzers to right of screen. Girl reaches for alkaseltzers (hand comes in from left of screen.) pulls one out of packet, drops it into the glass and takes glass out of shot as she walks away.
Shot 24: 5 seconds - Long shot of girl in her bedroom through bedroom door. Girl has glass in her hand and is walking towards the camera. She walks out of the door and turns on the light switch, she then turns the corner to the left of shot and camera pans slightly right to left to follow her.
Shot 25: 1 second - Close-up of a foot on banisters. Goes into and out of shot. From left to right.
Shot 26: 2 seconds - Shot through banisters of hallway, girl walking from right of screen. Low level shot using banisters for frame within frame, pan right to left.

121-148 seconds
Shot 27: 1 second - Close-up of shelf, to the right of the girl, she puts her glass down onto shelf as she walks past. See minimal of girl.
Shot 28: 2 seconds -Shot from within bathroom, girl opens door and walks into the bathroom towards camera (which is directly opposite door). Girl then walks to the right of screen out of shot. Long shot which turns into medium. Do not see girls head or feet.
Shot 29: 1 seconds -Close-up of a foot on banisters. Goes into and out of shot. From left to right.
Shot 30: 7 seconds - Close-up of girl looking in mirror from point of view of mirror. She rubs her face and drops hand to turn on tap (out of shot)
Shot 31: 4 seconds- Side view of sink and taps medium-closeup, hand reaches in from left of screen to turn on tap. Girl collects water in her hands and raises it up to her face (out of shot).
Shot 32: 6 seconds - Low level medium-closeup from bathroom floor of doorway (to left of frame) and girl at sink (her feet at to the right of frame). The intruder then walks through the doorway towards camera. Then turns to his left to face the girl who is washing her face at the sink still. He stops and screen fades to grey then black.
Shot 33: 6 seconds - Black screen, the title 'Retribution' fades up onto screen

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