Synopsis for "Mind of it's Own"

Synopsis.

       The opening scene to a thriller movie is called “Mind of it’s Own” and it is based on a story about a mysterious mask that controls a person’s mind when someone wears it. The mask's makes people do strange and crazy things. The mask was previously worn by a young man who ended up killing his family. The mask is found mysteriously hanging on the tree, we see a young teenage guy walking down the alley way near his school on the phone, and he notices the mask which is a typical mask you would expect to see people wear on halloween. He is attracted to the mask and picks it up not knowing the danger the mask can bring to his future.  The young teenager Josh played by Sintieh is on his way to meet up with his girlfriend Sarah after her revision class in school.  Josh goes into the school toilets and puts the mask on, when he puts the mask on he starts shaking and it is like his being transformed into something strange and being controlled by something greater than him, he then falls to the ground.  The opening scene ends with him he attacking a student who is walking down the hallway. 

Main task shot list

Shot 1 – Medium shot of characters dancing in party

Shot 2 – Long shot of characters walking down the road to the house from the back

Shot 3 – Same shot but from the front

Shot 4 – Close up of key going into the ignition

Shot 5 – Medium shot of door opening from the outside and characters about to walk in

Shot 6 – Medium shot of characters walking into the house from the inside

Shot 7 – Close up of keys being put down on the table

Shot 8 – Close up of the two characters looking at each other and exchanging few words

Shot 9 – close up of the mask on the characters face

Shot 10 – medium two shot of characters walking into a room from behind

Shot 11 – same shot but from the front

Shot 12 – long shot of character in the mast looking back and closing the door.

Shot 13 – medium shot of characters sitting down exchanging a few words

Shot 14 – close up of character with mask on twitching

Shot 15 – close up of other character looking worried and scared

Shot 16 – long shot of other character trying to escape the room

Shot 17 – over the shoulder shot of character trying to escape

Shot 18 – close up of character with mask on laughing

Shot 19 – over the shoulder shot of character grabbing the other character

Shot 20 – close up shot of the other character scared

Shot 21 – medium two shot of character being attacked 

Premilinary Excercise

3.1- What I learnt by doing the preliminary excercise.

During the filming excercise I learnt a few new things. One of the major new things I learnt was how to use a camera. Before we started the excercise we learnt how to use and camera as we were not familiar with using it. When we started the filming I picked up a few things regarding how to use the camera, the lighting and son on.

In my group was Celine, Veronica, Stephie and me. We had to take out different roles Celine came up with the shot list, Veronica was incharge of the sound and Stephie was incharge of editing are two minute preliminary excercise, and I was incharge of the camera. So we had to learn how to make sure that we understood our roles and to take them out. As the camera woman I had to learn how to use the camera and work out what type of shots would be very suitable for our short drama.

Firstly I got familiar with the camera and came up with the storyboard which made it very easy to make it clear how I wanted my shots to be and come out. When we first started we had a few problems as any group would but after many takes and as we learnt more and became more familiar to it, the premliminary excercise came out exactly how we wanted it.