Inspiration

We used this as inspiration, this is because it is creepy and gives off the impression of a tortured soul, we used this as the basis for our protagonist.

Pre-Production - Shot List

Truthfully most of this shot list was a far, far, far cry away from the shots we actually filmed. Seeing as we knew what we wanted in our heads, we saw little point in writing each individual shot down as there were a lot (we had well over hundred) and it would have wasted a lot of time. So what we did first was type up a short list of ideas for shots. We then used it as a guideline for the large number of shots we ended up taking. Here is our original shot list before we started filming, it isn't very detailed, but it worked for us.

Scene 1 (A Deserted City Centre – Night Time)

1. A TV sits in the middle of a dark room. A hand belonging to an off-screen character reaches for the on the button and presses it. The screen displays the protagonist (Mohammed Adel) standing in the middle of town at night. Camera zooms in on the screen.
2. Cross dissolves into medium-long shot of the protagonist in a deserted city centre with his head bowed to the ground. Then as Omen track begins, he lifts his head up and stares directly at the camera.
3. (Medium shot) Split-second shot of protagonist staring at the camera.
4. (Medium close up) Split-second shot of protagonist staring at the camera.
5. (Close up) Split-second shot of protagonist staring at the camera.
6. Extreme close up of protagonist staring at the camera.
7. Medium shot from behind protagonist as he sprints forward.
8. Medium shot from left side of protagonist as he sprinting through a deserted city centre.
9. Medium shot from left side of protagonist as he sprinting through a deserted city centre.
10. Medium shot of protagonist dancing by himself in a deserted city centre.

Scene 2 (Car Park - Night Time)

11. Medium shots from behind protagonist as he teleports from town to outside the entrance to a car park in Mosside.
12. Medium shots facing protagonist as he runs into the car park, constantly looking behind him as if being chased by an unseen character.
13. Tracking shot from behind protagonist as he runs through the car park.
14. Close up tracking shot of protagonist as he runs through the car park.
15. Series of medium shot jumps cuts (in time with the beat) as protagonist runs through car park.
16. Medium shot. Protagonist teleports again. (Dissolve to new location)

Scene 3 (Under a Bridge - Day Time)

17. Medium shot of protagonist as he materialises to this new location.
18. Long shot from shot other side of the bridge as protagonist runs across the bridge.
19. Medium long shot from behind protagonist as he runs across the bridge.
20. Close up tracking shots from right and left side of protagonist
21. Long shot from behind protagonist as he finally escapes the bridge.

Scene 4 (Wilmslow Road – Night Time)

22. Close up of protagonist staring into space.
23. Medium shot of protagonist staring into space.
24. Shot of cars driving down Wilmslow Road

Scene 5 (Park – Day Time)

25. Close ups Snorricam shot of protagonist spinning wildly on the spot.
26. Medium shot of protagonist running around the park.

Scene 6 (Graveyard – Day Time)

27. Medium shots of protagonist teleporting to the graveyard.
28. Medium shots of protagonist running through the graveyard (from left and right).
29. Protagonist jumps into an open grave. (Overhead shot)
30. Close up of the terror on his face.

Film Inspirations

We think that this film was a good inspiration for us as it shows how a man changes because of his environment and his own psyche. It shows a man who is threatened by his own inner demons and it manifests itself into a physical interpretation.

Song Choice

The song of which our group have chosen to do is called OMEN by The Prodigy. It belongs to the genre of drum and bass, and because of the lack lyrics in the song, we have chosen to shoot some kind of disjuncture for the video with some illustrative references to what little lyrics there are in the song.

We picked this song, mainly because our group didn’t want to be restricted by any narrative formed by song lyrics. With this track we have a lot of freedom to shoot whatever we want, as it's all disjuncture anyway, and so even the most bizarre pieces of footage we accumulate will be acceptable. Furthermore, we don’t have to worry about extensive lip-synching as there are practically no words to mime. Also the pace is of the song is very fast, which makes for very interesting editing to the beat.