In depth storyline
For our storyline we had an idea in mind about having the
general plot about hacking and a heist as we had a rush of cinematography,
editing and mise en scene ideas. This synopsis will describe the plot we had in
mind along with a director’s commentary which will be in brackets and italics.
3 Minutes
was our rough idea of duration so we would have dedicated around a minute per
act.
Act 1
Scene fades from black in a dark room where at the other side
a person can be seen profusely concentrating whilst quickly using a keyboard as
if they know exactly what they’re doing (our
general consensus here is that we personally favour when a story opens with a
scene that makes no sense initially but then later as the story is played back,
this first scene will fall into play and make perfect sense to the viewer. This
can be used by placing text such as “2 hours earlier” after this first scene.
This overall gives a sense of satisfaction to the viewer as they have the
feeling of solving a puzzle)
Slow moving shots could then be established over the person’s
shoulder looking at the screen with command line hacking (I found this source that can easily create this effect at http://hackertyper.net/ which allows the user to input random keys that
appear as hacking text) a natural key lighting would be used that is emitted
by the monitors light shining on the person and around the room which also
draws attention to the monitor within this setting.
After this, the hacker then is rewarded with an access
granted page (done by holding the Alt
key on the http://hackertyper.net/ website) followed by them celebrating. (The fade to black after this into act 2
can also connote an ending which is key for later in act 3 when the story
catches up with itself)
Act 2
(Again, using this idea
of adding “ X amount of time earlier”) Screen fades to black pane that
displays white text stating 5 hours earlier (This
gives a blurb of the story to the viewer which they can piece together as the
following 2 acts play out) Then a wipe transitions this text screen by
using a real world object such as a door, wall or tree to establish a daylight
and natural setting that is calm with no characters in any type of frantic
panic or rush, there will be three characters in this scene. (This then creates a complete juxtaposition
between this act and the prior one) The group discuss the idea of a USB
that has possibilities to modify any grades in college for any student but one
of the most secure encryptions known.
They will then further the plot by discussing ways of getting hands on it, its
‘rumoured’ location and any one associated.
Act 3
(Since this film seems
to be following a non fiction story then we would edit many everyday tasks into
montages to avoid any irrelevant scenes, known as elliptical editing) The
three characters then discuss the benefits of this USB and decide they must get
their hands on it. After this a sequence begins showing them devising a plan to
steal the USB (Small touches of whit
comedy can be used hear in order to further character development and portray
which character has which traits, for example intelligent, dumb etc.) This
sequence will only consist of one or two scenes. After this, a montage sequence
can begin showing them stealing the USB, this will consisting of seeing each
character’s role, in this case is: the hacker stealing the USB, lookout who
will be monitoring CCTV and lastly a distraction to keep any teachers away. The
person then gets the USB however the distraction and lookout are both
discovered for what they’re both really doing. This then leaves the final
character with the USB to panic and rush home to immediately modify the grades.
This character then enters the room scene in act 1 where everything has then
pieced together and fades to black and ends.
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