First 2 Minutes Ideas

a)      Establishing shot: a house decorated for Halloween. Night time. Music from the inside can be heard. Cut to a Sally’s room facing a closed door, music is louder. Door opens and Sally in a bathrobe and a towel on her head rushes in. Camera pans from door to a vanity where she starts to get ready. Multiple shots of her getting ready, mirror images (can see person in front of mirror; deep focus – real person is out of focus but mirror with reflected person is in focus; person in mirror). She puts moisturiser on (mid-shot) and the faint knocking of a door can be heard. Cut to view of the front door from the top of the stairs (knocking is louder in this shot). Cut to Sarah (close-up) with headphones on (muffled music can be heard). Cut back to Sally listening and frozen then her moving to her iPod speakers. Close-up of the iPod speakers and turning down the volume. Cut back to Sarah and her headphones. Next door, Sally can be heard saying, “Sarah, can you check downstairs please?”. Sarah turns up the volume. Cut back to Sally waiting and finally coming out and going herself (panning from speakers to door). Cut to shot of the door outside her room opening and her going to the stairs. Cut to her going downstairs from the top. Cut to her going downstairs from the bottom of the stairs and pan to her hand opening the door. Long shot from behind her opening the door. Long shot from the outside with her looking from the inside (similar to the establishing shot). Over the shoulder shot of her closing the door and pans as she goes up the stairs. Cut to shot of her coming up the stairs and into her room. She doesn’t close the door – shot of her doorway giving light to the dark hallway. Mid shot of her breathing heavily, silence then her phone from her vanity rings (music from speakers also starts), startled, she runs to it. Cut to profile close-up of her saying, “Hello” on the phone. Then front mid shot of her saying, “Sorry, sorry, I’m getting ready now.” (Real live call, can hear other person – one camera with Sally and one camera with Andrea). Close-up of her putting her phone back down on the vanity. She starts to put on her make-up; close-up of her doing her eyeliner, when she does her other eye, a loud knocking resumes, she smudges her eyeliner and she screams, frustrated. Mid shot of her back with her slamming her hands and the make-up down. She turns her head back and screams at her sister to get the door. Cut to Sarah and her headphones, rising from the bed and walking towards the door. Cut to over the shoulder shot of Sally looking at the doorway. Sarah appears. “What?” Cut to OTS of Sarah, “Can you answer the door please?”. Cut to OTS of Sally, “Why?!”. Cut to OTS of Sarah, “Because someone’s knocking on the door”, “No one’s there!”, “Can you please just look?”. Sarah is frustrated and cut to shot from top of the stairs and her walking downstairs and opening the door. No one. She shouts from the bottom of the stairs that no one is there. OTS shot of Sally removing her smudged eyeliner. Front shot, deep focus shot of sister walking past Sally’s doorway. Sarah sits back down in exactly the same place and puts her headphones back in. Sally starts to put on a red lipstick (close-up) then incessant knocking begins. Sally stands up (front mid shot), she yells, “FOR F-”, cuts to Sarah who takes off her headphones and hears her sister grumbling and stomping her foot. Cut back to Sally angrily going down the stairs (from top then side of stairs) (side of stairs shot – shadow of a hand can be seen). Same shot, she comes down, still grumbling and stomping, heading towards the door (but quite far from it).  Cut back to Sarah listening, with her headphones in her hand and Sally grumbling and stomping outside. Silence outside. Sarah stands up from her bed, worried and confused, “Sally?”. Cut to black. Credits and Titles appear.