Moving Image 1st idea

Director: Natasha Owen.

Producer: Helen Newman.

Camera: Chris Thorby.

Sound: Ajay Chauhan.

Editor: Amanda Lao.

We were given the script of 'Dog' and my role was to film. We focused on the idea of someone turning into a dog being more about someone dealing with the loss of the dog. We came up with an idea of a depressive drinker who is suffering from a very different loss. The way she is looked at; turning into more of a mess and the habit is what makes her seen as more of an animal. We thought of the title 'D.O.G - Depression Of the Girl'.


1st idea script

TITLE SCREEN: DOG Depression Of the Girl

Costume:

Lucy (Lucy Yates)
Smartly dressed, a Dress
Jeans and a top
Tracksuit bottoms and hoodie

Foundation/face paint - washed down with water- crying/distressed effect.

mascara/eyeliner + water - smudge effect.

Boyfriend
Jeans and T-shirt/jumper

1 INT. KITCHEN (FLAT) .

Cupboard doors are flung open and rapidly slammed (banging) as the cupboards are revealed as empty.

Close up opening the cupboards

CHIPPED NAIL POLISH

Eventually... one cupboard is opened and shut quickly and then re-opened. We see inside. there is a bottle of alcohol.

Close up from inside the cupboards

Lucy Yates is considering to take the bottle.

Freeze-frame of her face

Teary/smudged

Smartly Dressed - Dress

v/o) Ordinarily I wouldn't have considered it but... 

At the point of reaching for the bottle, she is hesitating.

Over the shoulder reaching for bottle

2 INT. KITCHEN. 

She is putting down the bottle and glass. Then opening the bottle.

She picks up the glass and pouring drink.

Birds eye view 

Once she put down the bottle, she is staring at her bracelet.

Close UP

Flashback of boyfriend giving her a bracelet

3 INT. LANDING (toilet). 

Medium shot of the door

From outside the toilet we hear about to sick, toilet flushing, crying,about to sick and toilet flushing.

Lucy stumbles out of toilet then wipes her mouth.

Medium shot coming out of toilet

4 EXT. STREET (cafe) .

WALKING PAST OF THE CAFE

Tracking of her

LUCY LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW

Close up

Flashback of her holding boyfriends hands in a cafe

5 EXT. STREET. 

We see Lucy sitting outside the cafe and pouring a drink into a glass.

Medium shot

6 EXT. Street (off Licence). 

Lucy coming out of the off licence shop.

tracking

Lucy unloads her shopping. Lots of bottles of alcohol.

Close UP

7 INT. Lounge . DAY 7

What follows is a montage of a series of jump cuts as glasses of drink, glassed piling up, drinking, crying. Glasses and bottles switching sides. Different glasses. Sometimes the glass is shot cups.

close up STOP FRAME

8 EXT. arboretum park. DAY 8

Lucy walking through the park.

Medium Shot

9 EXT. PARK. DAY 9

Flashback of hand held and videoing each others.

Video camera/ mobile phone.

10 INT. FRONT ROOM. NIGHT 10

Lucy lying on the sofa, with bottles of alcohol sit on the floor and sick (chicken soup) on the floor.

Close up shots of bottle, pans to arm and up to face.

Fade out

THE END

The stop frame part showing the glassing pile up and her drinking will be like the heroin scene in 'Requiem for a Dream'. The Scene can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWgk0_zTQQ

Original idea cinematography and props

Camera

Shot  1 – Close up opening the cupboards

Shot 2 – Close up from inside the cupboards

Shot 3 – Freeze-frame of her face

Shot 4 – Over the shoulder reaching for bottle

Shot 5 – Birds eye view putting down the bottle

Shot 6 – Birds eye view putting glass down

Shot 7 – Birds eye view opening and pouring drink

Shot 8 – Close up of her looking at bracelet

Shot 9 – Flashback of boyfriend giving her a bracelet

Shot 10 – Medium shot of the door

Shot 11 – Medium shot coming out of toilet

Shot 12 – Tracking of her walking past the café

Shot 13 – Close up of her looking through the window

Shot 14 – Flashback of her holding boyfriends hands in a café

Shot 15 – Medium shot pouring drink

Shot 16 – Tracking her coming out of off licence shop

Shot 17 – Close up of unloading shopping

Shot 18 – Stop frame

Shot 19 – Close up of drink

Shot 20 – Close up of her drinking

Shot 21 – Close up of her drinking

Shot 22 – Close up of her drinking

Shot 23 – Close up of glasses piling up

Shot 24 – Close up of glasses piling up

Shot 25 – Medium shot walking through the arb

Shot 26 – Flashback handheld

Shot 27- Videoing each other

Shot 28 – Close up shot of bottle, pans to arm and up to face

Fade out

Costumes

Lucy

Smartly dressed, a Dress

Jeans and a top

Tracksuit bottoms and hoodie

Boyfriend

Jeans and T-shirt/jumper

Props

Tuesday –Make up mascara, water, bottles, costumes, bracelet, handbag

Wednesday – Chicken Soup, bottles, glasses, costumes, bracelet