Breakdown of Shots

To further our planning progress the group began to outline specific individual scenes and more clear ideas for frames and camera movements to help us when it came to filming. It also will be a helpful guide during the editing process as it shows a more detailed structure in addition to the one we developed following the production of our treatment, script and storyboard. We anticipated as well that we needed to be able to show an audience that the 'time-loop' was in effect, so laying out out potential shot sequences meant we could be more efficient and not film certain scenes multiple times. This helped for initial filming ideas but also was flexible for us to adapt as we wanted when filming.

OPENING: ARGUMENT - (Black + White, Silent)
Two girls are both upset and shouting, shot from various angles.

IN THE HOUSE - FIRST DAY

1. Faye sits up in bed looking scared, alarm sound can be heard

2. Shot of her hand switching off the alarm and it's sound, lasts long enough so that the date and time on clock can be seen

3. Close up of objects on the floor. See girl scrambling to put them all in her bag, her face cannot be seen. As she is doing this a voice from downstairs can be heard telling her a parcel has arrived for her

4. Camera tracks her as she stands up with bag, then remains still as she walks away from it towards the door which she closes behind her

5. Camera is at the bottom of the stairs, (high angle) and stays still as she runs towards it quickly

6. Close up of delivery parcel is shown

7. Over the shoulder shot as she opens the parcel to reveal a book, she anxiously flicks over some of the pages

8. Medium shot of her glancing to check that no one has seen her before then putting it inside her bag

9. Close up of her sitting on the bottom step putting on shoes
10. Close up of her zipping up her jacket

11. Close up of her hand snatching keys from the table

12. Close up of her hand picking up her bag

13. Shot of her hand opening the door handle

14. Shot of her slamming the door behind her


IN THE FOREST - FIRST DAY
15. Walking away through forest, camera tracking her from behind
16. Low angle shot as she sits down on the spot she's picked
17. Close up on her bag as she takes her book out: it follows the book around and we see her hand stroking the spine and flicking through the pages
18. Long shot of her looking around to see if anybody is watching her
19. She goes back to flicking through until she finds the page she wants
20. Camera close up on her face, she smiles gently 
21. Mobile phone close up as it beeps for a new message
22. Cuts back to a close up of her running her finger over the page 
23. Close up on her face as she mutters words to the spell under her breath with her eyes closed.


IN THE HOUSE - SECOND DAY
24. Wakes up in bed with the alarm ringing and breathes a sigh of relief
25. Shot of her switching off alarm showing the date
26. Close on her as she is sat up, looks confused and rubs her eyes
27. Shot of the clock again
28. Shot face on to Faye - shown getting out of bed and gathering belongings: voice off tells her that a parcel came for her yesterday. She looks up (not into the camera) and responds saying, "no, it came yesterday." Mother responds as Faye gets her last belonging, "no, no, the parcel arrived just now."
29. Tracking shot as she grabs her bag and runs out of the door, shutting it behind her. 
30. Camera is at bottom of stairs and still as she runs towards it quickly
31. Close up of delivery
32. Close up of zipping jacket
33. Close up of snatching keys
34. Close up of picking up bag
35. Shot of her opening door handle
36. Shot of her slamming door


IN THE FOREST - SECOND DAY
37. Shot of her sat cross legged, slight high angle, she is muttering spell again under her breath
38. Phone message beeping can be heard which startles her and she jumps up
39. Begins to run away looking over her should. 


(Series of shots in a montage to show the passing of yet more days)


IN THE HOUSE
40. Wakes up looking at clock's date
41. Close up on the clock's date and time
42. Throws clock on the floor in desperation
43. Runs down the stairs without the bag - camera follows her from behind over the shoulder as she approaches her mother. 
44. Shot reverse shot conversation between the two regarding the time-loop.


IN THE FOREST 
45. Close up on her bag as she takes her book out: it follows the book around and we see her hand stroking the spine and flicking through the pages
46. Long shot of her looking around to see if anybody is watching her
47. She goes back to flicking through until she finds the page she wants
48. Camera close up on her face, she smiles gently 
49. Mobile phone close up as it beeps for a new message
50. Cuts back to a close up of her running her finger over the page 
51. Close up on her face as she mutters words to the spell under her breath with her eyes closed.
52. Faye is running through the forest scared and upset. Extreme close up to show her fear.

Script

INT: SALCEY FOREST – DAYTIME

MEDIUM SHOT: TWO GIRLS arguing… they are shouting at one another and both looking upset…FAYE slowly walks away from the argument…the scene is in black and white and in silence.

INT: BEDROOM – MORNING

MEDIUM SHOT: FAYE wakes up in bed looking scared. Sighs heavily. FAYE leans over to turn off the alarm that is bleeping.

CLOSE ON: FAYE picking up her belongings on the floor and putting them into her rucksack.

ROOMATE (OFF SCREEN)

There’s a parcel here that’s arrived for you

FAYE gets to her feet and leaves the room with the bag. She runs down the stairs to retrieve the PARCEL. She gathers the PARCEL and puts it into her bag before leaving the house with her rucksack.

ESTABLISHING SHOT: showing the scenery of the forest. Voices of PEOPLE nearby can also be heard. FAYE begins to walk away to another part of the FOREST.

ANGLE ON: FAYE sitting down alone in the forest. She takes the BOOK out of her bag. She looks around to check she is alone.

CLOSE ON: The page of the BOOK she is looking for.

FAYE
(to herself)

(Muttering the spell under her breath)

FAYE becomes frightened because she thinks somebody is near her. She walks away towards the forest.

INT: BEDROOM, IN THE HOUSE – THE NEXT MORNING

MEDIUM SHOT: FAYE wakes up in bed…the alarm clock is ringing…as she goes to turn it off.

CLOSE ON: The alarm clock. The date on the clock is the same as yesterday. FAYE looks confused.

FAYE gets out of bed to gather her belongings up and put them into her bag.

ROOMMATE: (OFF SCREEN)

There’s a parcel here that’s arrived for you

FAYE: (SHOUTING DOWN TO HER MOTHER)

No, there shouldn’t be, it came yesterday

ROOMATE: (OFF SCREEN)

No, no, the parcel arrived just now

TRACKING SHOT: FAYE leaves the room to go downstairs. She collects her parcel and bag as she leaves the house.

INT: IN THE FOREST – SAME SPOT AS THE PREVIOUS DAY – DAYTIME

FAYE sits down and gets out the BOOK from her bag.

FAYE
(to herself)

(Muttering the spell under her breath)

CLOSE ON: PHONE beeping, new messages and missed calls can be seen on the phone.

TRACKING SHOT FROM BEHIND ON: FAYE running away from the forest.

INT: BEDROOM – IN THE HOUSE – MORNING, DAYTIME

MEDIUM SHOT: FAYE wakes up in bed. Sighs heavily. FAYE leaves the alarm ringing and lies down again.

INT: BEDROOM – IN THE HOUSE – MORNING, DAYTIME

MEDIUM SHOT: FAYE wakes up in bed.

CLOSE ON: The ALARM CLOCK showing the date and time


MONTAGE: of repeated shots from the previous days to mark more repetitions 

FAYE throws ALARM CLOCK onto the floor in desperation. She runs downstairs and meets her ROOMMATE in the hallway.

INT: BEDROOM - IN THE HOUSE - MORNING, DAYTIME

ROOMMATE:

What's wrong?

FAYE:

(angrily)

I keep living the same day over and over again, I don't know why. It's happened all week. It's doing my head in now.

ROOMMATE:

(concerned)

What have you done? That can't happen.

ROOMMATE goes to comfort the FAYE, FAYE shrugs her away.

FAYE:

(desperate)

I had an argument with my friend and I wanted to put it right, but now I'm stuck in this day, I've had the same package delivered lots of times now.

ROOMMATE:
(nervous laughter)
Don’t be silly. I'm sure it'll be OK, don't worry too much about it.

FAYE turns her back to her ROOMMATE and shakes her head.

INT: BEDROOM – IN THE HOUSE – DAYTIME

CLOSE ON: FAYE waking up calmly, turning off the alarm clock and heading downstairs. She puts on a different JACKET and pair of SHOES to the ones she has been wearing previously.

INT: THE FOREST - DAYTIME

MEDIUM SHOT ON: FAYE walking through forest alone, like in previous days

ESTABLISHING SHOT: showing the scenery of the forest. Voices of PEOPLE nearby can also be heard. FAYE begins to walk away to another part of the FOREST.

ANGLE ON: FAYE sitting down alone in the forest. She takes the BOOK out of her bag. She looks around to check she is alone. She reads the MESSAGES on her phone and learns that the issues with her friend have been resolved.

INT: BEDROOM – IN THE HOUSE – DAYTIME

MEDIUM SHOT: FAYE wakes up, the date of the following day is shown on the alarm clock. 

Storyboard

Following the writing the treatment, as a group we needed to produce a storyboard in order to try and visualise our ideas. It was helpful for us to sketch out possible shots and sequences in our minds in order to try and anticipate what our film may look like and whether it could be what we intend to achieve. We created the storyboard to be compatible with the treatment which meant our ideas became more solidified. It also gave us the opportunity to begin to consider any dialogue or any other diegetic/non-diegetic sounds, as well as any effects we could possibly consider in the editing process.

Treatment

A black and white fight is shown between two teenage girls with music being the only sound accompanying the action. The argument takes place in a forest.


Faye awakes on the morning of 1^st November to her alarm clock ringing. She is reluctant to stop the alarm ringing and to get out of bed. On the floor of her bedroom her belongings, a mobile phone, jacket, scarf, torch and money are scattered. She collects these belongings into a rucksack and walks towards her bedroom door after hearing her roommate call, “a parcel has arrived for you.” This causes her to look agitated as she hurries down the stairs in order to retrieve the parcel. She looks around before she opens it to make sure that her roommate doesn't see what it is: inside is book on witchcraft. Faye puts the book inside her rucksack and puts on her shoes and jacket before unlocking the front door and leaving with the rucksack. She walks over the gravelled driveway to the driver’s door before pulling away from the drive.

The atmosphere of the forest appears to be calm and ordinary as Faye stands and observes the families and dog walkers who are present. She begins to walk down a footpath to a secluded part of the forest where she envisages she’ll be alone. She takes out the witchcraft book and runs her fingers down the spine in inspection and carefully flicks through the pages before looking up to check that nobody is nearby. When she returns to look back at the book she notices the page for the magic that can reverse past mistakes, the page she was intending to look for. It is here when her mobile phone beeps to tell her she has received a text message from one of her friends and there are a few missed calls as well. She doesn't realise nor read the message. She begins to trace her fingers over the page with this particular spell on it. She mutters the words of the spell and then slams the cover of the book shut as though she is alarmed by it. The tense atmosphere begins to build as she walks away briskly from the area which has become unnerving. She imagines that there is somebody else present with her and becomes frightened. She closes her eyes out of fear and wakes up in bed.

Faye wakes up she breathes a sigh of relief. She goes to switch off her alarm which is ringing and realises that the date on the clock is the same as yesterdays. She looks confused but puts the clock down and rubs her eyes in disbelief. She gets up and begins to gather the same belongings into the bag. Her room-mate shouts from downstairs that a parcel has arrived. Faye responds, questioning her by stating that the parcel came yesterday. Her roommate is confused, but calmly tells her “no, no the parcel arrived today.” Faye grabs her bag and runs downstairs and sees the parcel there still unwrapped. She puts on her jacket and coat and leaves the house again.

She arrives at the forest and sits down with the book in the same spot as she was in the previous day. She mutters the spell again unaware of the new messages that are flashing on her phone. She looks around her as she imagines she can hear voices and is shown running back towards her car.


She wakes up in bed again and looks at the time and date on the clock. She lies back down on the bed in frustration, closes her eyes and leaves alarm ringing.
               

On what is assumed the be the fourth repeat of the 1^st November she runs down stairs after stopping the alarm ringing to find her roommate. Her roommate begins to tell her that a parcel has arrived for her but Faye interrupts her, explaining angrily about her frustration with the repetition of the days. The room-mate is confused and tries to comfort her. Faye goes on to explain to her roommate about the book that she bought and that she wanted it to correct a past mistake.

Faye is shown running through the forest looking scared and upset. She lifts her phone from her pocket and it is shown that the date is still 1^st November.

A montage shows the further repetition of the days as she is shown multiple times to be gathering up her things and putting on her shoes and jacket, mimicking the first time she left to go to the forest.

Faye wakes up calmly and turns off the alarm clock. She sighs and as she leaves her room she walks past all of her belongings. As she slowly walks down the stairs she calls out to her roommate asking her if anything has arrived. Surprised by her question, the roommate responds telling “yes, it’s just come through the door.” Faye gives her roommate a smile as she takes the parcel from her and puts on her shoes and jacket. The shoes and jacket she puts on are different to the ones she has been wearing on the other days. She walks away from the door towards the car with the book in hand. Arriving in the forest she goes to sit in the same spot she has sat in on the previous days. As she glances around her, her mobile phone on the grass beside her begins to bleep continuously as an influx of text messages come through. She reads through the messages all from her friend who she tells her room-mate about when she is upset. The messages are all about the friend forgiving her and asking if Faye is OK. She tosses the book into some of the nearby bushes, symbolic of her now understanding that the situation is alright and she doesn't need to reverse anything anymore. She walks away from the book towards her car again. The next time she wakes up she realises that the date has moved forward to the next day.