The new year 2nd

2012 here we are. Hope everyone had a great few weeks off with christmas and new year. Now over the hols i did a quick shot list for my cluedo animation scene. here is that if you want to have a look (quite boring but helpful to understand what i'm trying to achieve)

Animation 1

Cluedo train station Sequence

Shot 1,

Establishing shot. Shows the two protagonists enter the train station and camera shows the crowd and how busy it is. Two dark fellows are under shadow and one with a newspaper and one with a brief case.

Shot 2a,

Camera long shot of two protagonists looking before them the train station, where two men are blended in the crowd awaiting their opportunity to strike the characters. In this shot a train pulls up to the platform in the background.

Shot 2b,

Mid shot of villain 2 (standing up) resting on a post reading a newspaper. The newspaper slowly lowers and the two characters come in focus.

Shot 3,

Camera tracks with the head movement of one of the men, he’s in focus and then the depth of field changes so that the two protagonists are in focus. This shot is only a couple of seconds long.

Shot 4,

Close ups of the villain 1 (sat down) with his gun resting on his lap, camera pans up and shows him and then zooms back into shot 5 where the other Villain is standing.

Shot 5,

A slow pan mid shot pan to the right shows the villain has an Ak-47 he moves around the pillar and follows the two characters as they slowly walk towards the trains.

Shot 6,

Cuts to a long shot of the station and villain 1 (The man sitting down) gets up and walks the same way as the two protagonists. 

Shot 7,

Another long shot of the train station but this time looking from the platform to crowd and all the characters. The train’s passengers get off the train and walk towards the entrances.  

Shot 8,

Villain 2 walks towards the two characters with his Ak-47 raised up covered by his newspaper so the crowd don’t see it. The passengers from the train descend in front of him so he has got a clear shot.

Cameras haven’t animated yet.

Shot 9,

A 1st person view of Villain 2 slowly walking towards the two protagonists. The main protagonist turns slowly and all the passengers from the train get in front of the villain.

Shot 10,

Mid shot of Villain 1 getting close to the clock and walking by it, shows the drama that’s going on with Villain 2. Villain one then gets caught out with the crowd while trying to follow the characters.

Shot 11

A 1st Person view of Villain 1 walking past the clock and then being confronted by passengers from the train that recently entered the station. As they try and get past the protagonists are walking down the platform.

Shot 12

Close up of the two protagonists, one of them has a gun, holds it ready to response to the two villains behind them caught up trying to get through the passengers.

Shot 13

Villain 2 gets through the crowd and raises his gun and shoots at the two protagonists, hits the train door and it doesn’t open.

Shot 14

Mid shot of the protagonists jump behind a pillar and he cocks his weapon ready.

Shot 15

Close up of Villain 1 escapes the crowd after they all panic. Opens fire with his rifle. Hits the pillar.

Shot 16

Shot of them behind the pillar with the recoil of the rifle hitting them behind the pillar.

Shot 17

Long shot of the train closes its doors and starts to reverse out of the station. 1^st protagonist looks to the other and nods.

Shot 17a

Close up of them nodding

Shot 18

They run towards the end of the train and jump towards the other side of the platform.

Shot 19

Low close up shot of them landing on the platform

Shot 20

Quickly hide behind a pillar. Villains open fire.

Shot 21

Close up of protagonist and then zoom to clock. As he looks up to the clock and notices its loose.

Shot 22

A Mid shot of both Villains walking along while shooting under neath clock.

Shot 23

Close up slow motion shot of the gun firing a bullet towards the bottom of the clock. Camera follows bullet. Slow motion then to fast motion.

Shot 24

Hits clock and its snaps and the clock falls.

Shot 25

Falls on top of the two villains smash!

Shot 26

Mid shot of the protagonists jumping inside a train that park up into station. It shuts it doors and sets off out the station.

The end

Now hoping at by the end of the day to have achieve a lot of this up to shot 10 so got a lot of work to do. will be posting an update on that tonight. 

Rich out.