Red Herring

Title Name Decisions - Final Adjustments

After our first draft, we decided that instead of conforming to usual conventions of a crime mystery film, we would subvert them instead. Instead of using the detectives name as the title we decided to use the words "Red herring" instead

The definition of a red herring is "a figurative expression referring to a logical fallacy in which a clue or piece of information is or is intended to be misleading, or distracting from the actual question". We chose this because its meaning connotes that the clues he may receive during the film may be misleading and distract from the true culprit.

Even if our target audience doesn’t know what the meaning of 'Red Herring' is, the colour red itself has connotations of blood, anger and danger; all of which will be included in our plot.

RED HERRING

Final Product - First Draft

This is the first draft of our film opening.

Audience Feedback

Storyboard

Shooting Script

1.Establishing shot panning down a residential suburban street

2.Slow zoom in on front window of house where film is set

3.Extreme close up of detective’s hand, holding a pen and clicking

4.Extreme close up of hand of the dead body sticking out from under a sheet, slowly zooming in (match on action)

5.Panning across (left to right) of objects on mantle, one out of place

6.Mid shot of forehead/hair sticking out of sheet

7.Close up of ceiling light, slowly zooming out

8.Shot of feet sticking out of sheet, pull focus from one foot to the other

9.Slow zoom out of pictures on the wall, one is skewed 

10.Extreme close up of hand of detective, clicking pen

11.Shot of chair on its side

12.Slow zoom out of hair to reveal more of scene, including face and sheet

13.Extreme close up of hand clicking pen

14.Extreme close up of eyes, suddenly darting sideways

15.Close up of mouth/bottom half of face, smirking

16.Close up of head, turns towards door

17.Over the shoulder shot of detective’s sidekick entering the room

18.Fade to black

19.Fade to titles

Location Recce

We plan to film our film opening in the front room of a typical suburban house in South London. We have chosen this because it is a place that we can easily film in as it is inside and therefore not affected by weather.

We can easily bring in extra equipment such as lights and tripods if the weather affects the natural lighting. We also chose this location because the audience can easily relate to suburban streets, as well as cities, which are seen as busy and more dangerous than quaint countryside environments. It also fits in well with the convention of crime mysteries taking place in normal houses.

The room we have chosen to film in has large windows and light coloured walls, which will allow us to film in natural light, and make our film opening seem of a higher quality. Despite the use of only one setting, we will use a wide range of camera angles and shot types in order to make sure that our film opening is interesting and engaging, and creates an appropriate mise-en scene for the genre.