The Final Package

Evaluation Questions 1-4

Question One:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

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Question Two:

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? 

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Question Three:

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Last Dates

Making the Poster and Changing the Title Font

30th April 2018

Today, Eimir and I began editing the poster and we were looking for some fonts that resembled a ransom note, such as magazine cut outs of letters which we found many samples of on 1001fonts.com. We found around 5 that we really liked and screenshotted each of these to compare which one looked the best, and we finally settled on a font called 'Got Heroin'. 

Some of our options are inserted below:








We decided to invert the colours of the font as it was originally white text on black cut outs, and we wanted it to be the opposite way around, so we inverted the colours of the text using a website called PineTools.com. Once we had placed this font on our poster and decided that it looked really good, we realised that we needed it to relate to a font in the film in order to keep continuity - so, we changed the font from the final title screen to this same font and text. This allowed us to keep a link from the film text to the poster text, and also get to keep the creepy, crime-like font that we thought fitted the best.

Before we did any of this, we edited the colours such as the saturation, brightness, structure and warmth of the photo that we took for the poster on an app called Facetune, which Eimir was able to do using her iPhone, making it really easy for us to edit the photo quickly and in a way that was easily changeable if we wanted to change anything.

In the making of the poster, Eimir and I reflected back onto our poster analysis which we had completed a while ago in order to collect information about the codes and conventions of typical mockumentary film posters. I came up with the idea to put a bloody slab of meat on a plate which would represent the dinner scene in our film, which eventually evolved into putting a heart on a plate. We were able to do this as I organised with the Biology department in school to allow our group to use a heart, and my dad also went to the butchers and got some liver with lots of excess blood, so that we could use the blood in the photo, but also that in case the heart looked bad/didn't work, we had backup bits of meat to use. We had taken the picture of the heart on the plate in this way because typically, in mockumentary posters either the main character or an object to do with the main theme of the film is placed in the centre of the poster - which is why we placed a raw heart with blood surrounding it on a dinner plate, to reflect how our film surrounds love/dating which is shown by the heart, but the fact that it is raw and is surrounded by a pool of blood suggests that murder will occur in this film. We kept the colour scheme of the poster pretty dark and eery to stick to the red/black colour scheme that we had typically used throughout our entire film planning process - eg with the costumes. 

Once we had figured out the main layout of the poster, had edited the picture and added the title, it was time to add the smaller parts, such as the cast names and the crew credits. We added the main cast names above the title at the top of the poster in a font called Copperplate, which is a block capitals font which looks almost like font on a gravestone. We put the cast names here because this is typically where we have seen them on posters, and figured that this would make the poster look more professional and similar to a real poster, as well as drawing attention to the names of the cast. We separated the names of Cormac and Beth with a white heart in the middle, to again reflect the love aspect of the film. We then added the crew credits to the bottom third of the poster, just below the image of the plate, which we also added in the font Copperplate. We took an example poster and basically reworded their crew credits so that we would know what to include and what not to include, to make it look as realistic and professional as possible. We even made the names of the crew and important words taller in size than the actual roles of the crew, to make the names stand out more to the audience. This was also a pretty common theme in many posters that we looked at, so we decided to stick with that.

Lastly, we added the release date and social media links to the very bottom of the poster in the same font as before, including a twitter logo to initiate to the audience that the film is available for following on social media to increase promotion. This allows the audience to become excited/spread awareness of the release of the film, especially through the use of social medias.

Adding Production Company

26th April 2018

In order to make our film look more professional, we added a distribution company ident into our film at the beginning. Instead of using a popular ident such as Film4, we decided to search for an ident from a company that would be more likely to distribute a short film like ours. For this reason, we chose the ident from a distribution company called ShortsTV. 



ShortsTV are a distribution company which distribute high quality short films. They are a 24/7 HD TV channel dedicated to short films. We inserted this into the first frame of our film because that is typically where the production company is shown in films. 

After this, we also added our own distribution company called 'EMA Productions' which we made up last year for our other film, The Secret. We inserted this ident that we designed after the second frame in the film.



This just shows that we had put thought into the distributive process that would occur for our film, and it also allowed us to make our film look much more professional.

Adding Alarm Sound

23rd April 2018

Today, I went through the dinner scene and had to add the alarm effect that would've been coming from the kitchen during the date. This is the alarm that stops Bobby mid sentence and breaks up the dinner scene. I went to the sound effects tab and searched through all of the alarm sounds, listening to small snippets of many alarm sounds, but Maeve and I finally settled on a sound effect called "Alarm Clock Bell" which sounds like a timer on an oven, which is what we were going for.

The sound effect was added just at the beginning of Bobby's sentence, so it interrupts his speech. I faded out the effect towards the end so it doesn't sound so abrupt, and set the level of sound to -20.0db.

Fixing Audio

23rd April 2018

Today, we were playing through the film to check for any errors we hadn't yet dealt with, and found some areas where the audio needed fixed as it was either too quiet, or we had better audio recorded on a microphone which was much clearer. This was the case in some of the outdoor park scenes, such as the introduction scene where Poppy speaks about her struggle with finding love. The sound here sounded very quiet and was almost inaudible, but luckily we had recorded this scene on the field recorder too.

I detached the audio from the original clip and removed it from the film, and then added the field recorder audio which I had saved in a file called 'Audio' so it was easy to locate.



I had to adjust the audio a few times by cutting it short at the beginning, and moving it to fit the filmed clip perfectly. Once the audio fitted perfectly against the filmed clip, I noticed that the sound of wind was obvious towards the end of her speech, so to remove this sound as much as possible, I used the blade tool to split the audio into two parts from where the windy sounds began, and used audio effects on the audio affected by wind. I set the Equalisation to 'Flat' and checked the Audio Analysis which passed with no problems. So, I clicked to see more on the audio analysis, and from here I was able to adjust the effects myself, so I set Noise Removal to 100%. This helped to edit the sounds of wind out as much as possible, so it's quite subtle now. The subtle wind sound actually sounds natural though, as the clip was filmed outside, so this adds to the film. 

Narration

20th April 2018

Today, we completed the narration for our film. The narration was spoken by our teacher, who watched the film as he read the script so that we could accurately time the narration to fit perfectly. To do this without noise interruption, we had to export the film to a MacBook which we could bring to another room so that we could have peace and quiet without the noise of classmates. This allowed us to have a much clearer audio.

I wasn't present for the recording of the narration as I was off school sick, but I received feedback from my team members about the narration process and I listened through to the recorded narration to ensure that it was perfect for our film. 

Magazine Review

Our group had the task of writing three different film reviews four our film. To do this well, we each analysed a bunch of film reviews from various websites. I decided to analyse the review for the film "Ghost Stories" from the Empire Magazine. In my analysis, I read through the entire review and jotted down the basic structure of the review, which would heavily assist me whilst writing my own. This would act as a basic guideline for writing the review, roughly taking a paragraph for each section.



I also added some social media links into the end of the review, to increase promotion of the film - which I discuss more in my evaluation.

My film review:

On the off chance that there are fans of films surrounding the topics of awkwardness, dating, murder and blood, well, this film may be the one for you. 'Last Dates' begins just like a dating show, consisting of our first serial killer, Bobby, played by Cormac (Dwyer), who butchers his victims, and our second, Poppy, played by Beth (Hamill), who has a slight taste for poisoning. Their awkward yet joyful date quickly takes a downward spiral into becoming a murderous crime scene. I guess the date was just so wonderful, that it was to die for.

Based on the British TV show 'First Dates', 'Last Dates' takes this concept, flips it around, adds a a couple deaths and voila, the film was born. Two cruel characters looking for love ending up on a deadly date with one another could never end well, who could've expected that two serial killers would end up killing, well, each other? There are tons of obvious ways that this story could go, however, the plot written by Shearer, McKegney and Hamill, takes very few of them. The film is howlingly funny with its ludicrously sarcastic humour throughout, which is a the complete opposite of what we would expect from two strange, yet lethal characters. 

Hilariously funny, the audience are practically in stitches throughout watching the characters attend their uneasy first date. However, this quickly changes from being side splittingly amusing to a tragic downfall. The interesting yet unexpected plot twist (although the murders were foreshadowed, how could we not see it coming?) draws the audience in and leaves them wanting more as they indulge into the bizarre lives of these murderous criminals. 

Shearer, McKegney and Hamill did a great job on this film, certainly reviving themselves from their not-so-successful film, "The Secret", which premiered last June. I think we can all agree that getting themselves back into producing comedic films was a life saver for their careers and the diminishing mockumentary genre. Make time to take yourself out and see this film - it'll truly take you out of the world of stress we all live in and let you indulge in the crazy lives of two serial killers. You'll be dying with laughter.



The final review:

Updated Choosing Music

Today, we inserted the track that we found for our final scene into the film. Eimir went searching for a track last night and found one on a website called Smart Sound. The track that we used was called 'Americana'. 

The track has a very sad and melodramatic vibe to it, making it perfect for the scene. After lots of searching, we couldn't find any tracks that had the creepy jazzy feeling to them that actually fit the scene, so we changed the idea to have more of a depressing/sad feel. 

The only issue with the track was that it had a man saying the words "Smart Sound" roughly every 15 seconds in the track, to trademark the track even though it's royalty free. Because of this, we had to blade the track in 4 different areas and split the sound so we could allow the music to match up again, without it being obvious that we cut parts of the track out. This took some time, but it was manageable as we used the fade in and fade out effect a lot to make this flow better.

Making the Credits

Wednesday 18th April

Today, we created the credits for the film. Instead of placing opening credits like we did in our film last year, we decided to place rolling credits on the final shot of the poison bottle. We placed the rolling credits on the side of the shot which looks very dark, almost black, and coloured the credits in white and the font as Times New Roman, which stood out exceedingly well against the dark area of the shot. We decided on rolling credits as we felt that they look very simple and plain, which is what we wanted for the ending of the film because the ending has so much going on in it. 

In the credits, we named the actors/actresses we had and their roles in order of importance in the film. We then placed our own names and our generic roles in the production of the film, including production, editing, directing and casting. We also credited ourselves for coming up with the plot idea, and credited Eimir for mainly scripting the film. 

Once the final shot fades out, it fades to an ending title screen which displays text saying "Last Dates" once again, but this time, the text is a shade of red and in the font Sketch Block and the text appeared by itself on a black background this time. This text is in the size 168.0

Making the Title Screen

Tuesday 17th April

Today, we created the title screen for our film. Firstly, we brainstormed ideas of what we wanted the title screen to include. This was easy enough as we all seemed to be on the same page due to the fact that we were focusing on a title screen for a dating show, so we already had pre-conceived ideas of what these title screens should look like from watching shows such as First Dates or The Undateables. We wanted to make a title screen really similar to these, pretty simple but effective - usually animated.




We noticed that Final Cut Pro didn't offer us the animated widgets that we wanted to use in our title screen, so we went searching for some animations that we could download for free. We came across a website called Stupid Raisins, which allowed you to download packs of animations for Final Cut Pro. We downloaded a pack called Sign Pop & Template Pop which contained a number of random widgets, but most importantly, it included a widget which looks like a folder which a heart on it - which perfectly fit our film. We decided to add this to a title screen with a white background. The title screen we chose had a black box image placed on it which we couldn't delete, so we placed the animated image on top of that. We also changed the text to say "Last Dates" and changed the font to Al Bayan and the size to 72.0. We also altered the colour of the font to a pink/peach shade, and changed the colour of the animated folder to be the same colour as the font, making it look more professional and nice to look at.

We then added some effects to make it a little more interesting, so we added the effect Bokeh Random which allowed the title screen to look as if it had some flashing lights flowing across it, but you could only see this effect on the text because the background was white, which left a nice effect. The animation also flew in on the title screen and flies out of the title screen, going to a black screen then transitioning to the next scene as the music ends. 

We're really happy with our title screen, and think it looks really professional, and as if it was made for a real dating show.

Choosing Music

13th April 2018

Today we were researching music for the beginning and end of our film. We needed some light hearted and upbeat music generally consisting of instruments like a piano rather than acoustic guitar. We decided to search for this sort of music because it is very common in dating shows and documentaries, so we figured that it would perfectly fit our film as it is a mockumentary mimicking a dating show. 

We searched for snippets of this sort of music on a few websites that supplied royalty free music, as we're not able to use music that is copyrighted which made it much more difficult to search for music that will fit.

The websites we have used to search for music so far have been:

• http://www.purple-planet.com/
• https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/cinematic
• https://www.hooksounds.com/

After searching through multiple categories of music types such as calm, upbeat, jazz etc. and listening to roughly over 60 snippets, we decided on a track called 'Winter Wonder' from Purple Planet. 

As for the music at the end of the film during the choking scene and the credits rolling, we have not yet found something that is royalty free and fits the scene how we want it to. Ideally, we're looking for something similar to Patsy Cline's "She's Got You", however it is very difficult to find a track like it with lyrics without it being copyrighted.

Changing the Brightness on shots

10th April 2018

Today, I focused on editing the brightness and saturation of some of the shots in our film to make the shots match better with the shots on either side of them, and match the theme of the film better. This also allowed me to make shots more clear and easier on the eye of the audience. 

Below are a number of shots which I have edited the brightness/saturation of:



This shot needed lots of work to it because the lighting is so dark in the shot and also has a very warm hue, which we didn't really want because the shots on either side of it were more cool toned and lit very brightly. To alter this, I played around with the highlights and midtones to make it a little bit brighter, and I altered the saturation to make it a little less warm toned. All of the details are included in the screenshots:

BEFORE:



AFTER:


  



Below are a number of other shots which I have adjusted the brightness and saturation of, and the details of the brightness/saturation changes are included in the screenshots:

Editing

Directly after filming was finished, we began editing the film. Even though we identified the faults in the footage from the first filming day and needed to refilm, we edited as much as we possibly could from the good footage. We firstly sorted through all of the footage and deleted all of the footage we definitely weren't using to ensure that we didn't get mixed up with shots. We then sorted through the script and shot list to see the order in which we would place our shots. This was fairly easy as we initially followed the planned shot list and then decided to play about with the order of some shots to see what parts fitted better and what transitioned well into each other.

Initially, we just wanted to get a grips of the general plan of the film, and get all of the shots into order and then we could deal with sound and brightness at a later stage. Once we had a general layout to the film, we started playing about with the audio of the shots and moving it around so that we could allow shots change whilst the audio still played. 

Once we had also gotten the footage from refilming, this was all much easier because we could complete our storyline and begin focusing on how to make the editing better. At the moment, we're currently trying to adjust the audios and adjust the brightness of the shots to make sure that the shots are flowing well and look good together. 

Poster Research

In order to know what sort of poster to create for our film, I decided to do a little bit of research into what mockumentary/comedy posters look like so I could gain a general idea of the typical codes and conventions of the posters made. 







I then went on to analyse the poster for Borat, and applied the logic I gained from that to the other posters that I viewed, and I noticed that typically, the main characters of the film are placed in the centre of the poster, the reviews are at the top and bottom of the poster, and the font typically reflects the theme of the film.

Re-Filming Day

Due to errors in the first filming day, we decided to meet up again and refilm the last few scenes including the dinner scene, the interview scene and the killing. We refilmed these shots on the 31st of March 2018. This filming session took around 2 and a half hours, which worked well because it was long enough to get the filming done again to a better standard and it also didn't take much time out of our actor's days. We filmed from 7pm to 9.30pm. 

Like the previous day, we decided to split the crew up into separate roles again to ensure we weren't wasting time, and we also followed the re-shooting schedule closely to make sure that we didn't miss any shots - and we also paid close attention to the accents of our actor/actress, making sure that they didn't change again. For one scene, I left Eimir and Maeve to film whilst I made the blood, and likewise Eimir left to set the interview scene up whilst Maeve and I filmed. This allowed us to be more flexible with our time. We also found that we had more time to focus on filming because we had less props to prepare, as we didn't need to refilm the choking scene - so we didn't have to make the pasta again, and we also didn't need to use the poison bottle again. 

Office Filming Day

On the 29th of March 2018, we went to my dad's office to film some shots for the office/secretary scenes. We planned to shoot some filler shots for the narration to play over for any part of the film, such as shots of flowers or cars driving along a road. We also needed to get shots of a general day in an office, such as a woman typing on a computer, files, and a woman using a photocopier. This would allow us to let the audience realise that these shots are taking place in the business which sets up the date between Bobby and Poppy. We wanted to get shots of Maeve acting as a secretary who would be on the phone to Bobby informing him about his date with Poppy.

We managed to get all of the filler shots that we needed which really helped throughout editing as it gave us lots of time for narration throughout the film. 

During the scene of the phone call between the secretary and Bobby, we decided to have our secretary scrolling on her computer through a word document of both Bobby and Poppy's applications to the dating programme. This is visible in an over the shoulder shot we took whilst the secretary was on the phone. We thought that this would be a good shot to allow the audience to have an insight into both characters and show that they have met through a dating programme.

Overall, our filming day at the office went very smoothly and only took around 1 hour to film, as we arrived at 4pm and we were finished by around 5pm. We had no delays and we followed the shooting schedule very carefully.

Filming Day

We filmed on the 19th of March 2018, and although we found that the filming went quite successfully, we definitely ran over time. We had planned to film from 3pm to 9pm, but it all started late (roughly around 4pm) as we arrived at the park location realising we had forgotten the SD card for the camera, easy mistake, but it set us back by a lot of time as we had to go and get it in order to film.  The outdoor scenes went very well - we had multiple versions of shots which were really useful in editing as we got all of these shots perfect. 

We decided to have Poppy chasing after a dog to make her seem a bit more simple and strange - we figured that this would be a funny touch to the film and this was possible for us because we were chatting to a woman with lively dog and she consented for us to film the dog with the character of Poppy.

We were quite proactive in using our resources and we had to come up with new ideas on how to heighten the tripod so that we could film over the shoulder shots of Bobby whilst he was standing - this was difficult because our actor is 6"2 and our tripod was quite small in height. To combat this issue, we placed our tripod on top of boxes that Eimir had in her house, which allowed us to achieve the shots we had wanted.

During the filming of the outdoor scenes, we found that we filmed these quite slowly and wasted a lot of time by getting distracted rather than focusing on our time schedule. Although we followed the shooting schedule very closely, meaning that we shot all of our shots in the correct order and took multiple shots of each shot we needed to take, to ensure that we had backup shots incase some had mistakes/faults; however, this caused us to end up further back on our time schedule, leaving us with much less time to film our main scenes such as the date scene and the killing scene. We found that this tight time schedule for the final scenes caused us to discard the shooting schedule and we filmed based on the script, leaving out shots that we didn't think were majorly important - which backfired when it came to editing as we were missing lots of filler shots and important shots which would've improved our film. We also found that there were lots of continuity errors in our shots because the filming was so rushed, and we didn't have many repeat shots so if our shots had mistakes we had no other option but to use them.

One major continuity error that we noticed was that the accents of our actors changed between the previous scenes and the main date scene - meaning we would have to refilm. However, this was slightly convenient for us because we wanted to refilm the date scene and the killing scene anyway, so this was an easy fix for us because the accent change only happened in these scenes.

We also attempted handheld shots in these scenes and they didn't turn out how we had wanted them to - so we wanted to refilm these as well and use a tripod. Luckily, our scene of Poppy pouring the poison was still perfect from the first filming, so this didn't need to be reshot.

We were prepared with props on the day of filming, and during filming some scenes we decided to split the crew up and have 2 people filming scenes and one person making the blood, the pasta and changing the photo frames to have our pictures in them; this worked for us as it allowed us to multitask so we could get more filming done and waste less time on preparing props. We rotated between roles so that one person wasn't being stuck on preparing props, usually rotating the roles between Eimir and myself so that we both got to take control of filming. 

 

Making Fake Blood - The Process

10th March 2018

Ingredients:

• Four 28 oz. bottles of orange or red ultra-concentrated dish detergent (the red frequently contains bleach - do not use any detergent with bleach)
• One small bottle of ultra-concentrated Dawn dish detergent (blue)
• 1.5 cups of creamy sugar-free peanut butter (regular will also work)
• One 16 oz. bottle of washable red poster paint
• Blue washable poster paint
• Black washable poster paint
• Sugar-free chocolate syrup

Tools:
Large pot or mixing bowl
Gallon-sized jug or pitcher
Spoon
Strainer or cheesecloth
Funnel
Microwave oven

Recipe:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Washable-Non-staining-Stage-Blood-by-the-Gallon/

The Process:
In order to ensure that the fake blood recipe we planned to follow on the day of filming wouldn't stain the tile floor in Eimir's house, we collected all of the ingredients (listed above), and Eimir then tested this recipe and did a stain test to make sure that it didn't stain, but also looked real in colour and consistency to real blood.

 
 


 


As shown in the photos above, the recipe worked just as expected and washed easily off of the tiles with kitchen roll and floor cleaner. Eimir had mentioned that the blood could've been improved by adding more brown paint to improve the colour a little bit, and also use more washing up liquid/water to make the mixture thinner. 

Poster Ideas

March 9th 2018

Today we explored some possible poster ideas for our film. We decided to plan this now because we figured that it would save us a lot of time if we could take potential poster photos on the day of filming, so it would make sense for us to plan a few ideas now to ensure that we get some good shots which we can use for our poster. This means that we don't have to bring our cast back again for a mini photo shoot for the poster.

Here are some ideas we came up with on a mindmap;

Making the Background for Interview Scenes

March 8th 2018

In our film we have included multiple scenes where the characters Bobby and Poppy are filmed speaking in an interview setting. We wanted to make the interview setting a little less boring, so we were interested in the idea of creating a prop for the background. We took inspiration from the show 'First Dates', as they have a background setting which looks like a heart printed onto wooden walls that have been painted white.





This made their interview scenes look a bit more interesting and also helped to let the audience know that these were private interview sections which took place at a different time to the actual date/current time in the show. We figured that this would be a good thing to include in our film, to help give the same effect. 

Our idea for the background setting was to create a big white heart, which has a smaller white heart with pink mosaic throughout it, with a black arrow being struck through the heart. We plan to hang this up against a white/grey wall - this will be our interview setting. 

To create the heart background, we used two large A2 sheets of white paper. We cut a large heart out of one of the white sheets, and a slightly smaller heart out of the second sheet. This second heart was our 'mosaic heart'. We cut multiple sheets of thick pink card into small triangular and trapezium shapes, and stuck these in a mosaic pattern onto the smaller heart shape. This roughly took me about 2 hours to complete. During this process, Eimir cut out two parts to an arrow out of thick black card. Once the mosaic heart was complete, we stuck it onto the larger heart so that the larger heart resembled a white border. We then stuck the black arrow parts on each side of the smaller heart, making it look as if the arrow was being struck through the heart.

Below are some pictures of the process of making the prop, and also a picture of our final product;

Updated Character Costumes

Shortly before filming while we were planning our props for the day of filming, maybe two weeks before the date of filming, we were looking at our costume choices and what we had available at home ourselves, and the clothes our actor/actress had available and decided to change the costumes.

Sticking to the plans from the previous post about costume, about the colour schemes and how red would represent danger and almost have an eerie vibe (see the previous costume post for more details), we decided we wanted to stick with the colour schemes previously chosen, having the characters wearing red or black. 

Eimir had a plain burgundy dress at home which wasn't going to be worn again so we figured that this would be perfect for Poppy's character considering we wanted to have a dress for her anyway, and the colour of the dress matched our original colour scheme plans. This was also handy as we didn't need to worry about the dress getting ruined by the blood if it ended up staining the clothes as the dress wouldn't be worn again. We also decided to have her character wearing a navy blue cardigan, as our actress Beth had this handy in her home and it still stuck within our dark colour scheme so it suited well. It also gave us an opportunity to show the poison bottle in the scene at the front door before Poppy enters the house as the cardigan had pockets that we could fit the bottle into. As for shoes, we kept it pretty casual and plain and decided that any sort of dolly shoe/trainer would work. For the outdoor scenes, we had Poppy wearing a black denim jacket over the same dress as we didn't want our actress to be cold during the scenes, but it also allowed us to show that the outdoor scenes happened at a previous point in the day and again, stuck with our dark colour scheme.

As for Bobby's costume, we pretty much kept it the same but we switched the colour of the jumper he wore to black instead of red, because we didn't want Bobby and Poppy's outfits to clash with colours. For his costume for the outside scenes, we had him wear a midtone blue fleece which just reflected how Bobby could act like a normal person despite his love for murdering, which was a common theme amongst many serial killers.

Shot List

Shot Number	Shot Type	Notes	Description
1.0	Extreme Long Shot		Cars driving down the road
1.1	Medium Close Up	-	Coffee being poured in to a mug
1.2	Over the Shoulder	High	Swiping through tinder
1.3	Extreme Close Up	Hip Level	Sharpening knives
1.4	Close up	Hip Level	Placing knives on stand
1.5	Close up	Eye Level	Bobby smiling into camera
1.6	Medium	Hip Level	Bobby unlocking door
1.7	Medium Close up	Hip Level	Unpacking shopping
1.8	Insert	-	Suspicious items going in to fridge
1.9	Medium Close Up	Eye Level	Interview style shot of Bobby talking
1.10	Long shot		Poppy walking in park
1.11	Medium	Eye Level	Interview style shot of Poppy talking
1.12	Medium Close Up (Pan)		Shot of files
1.13	Wide Shot (Pan)	High	Women working at computers in an office
1.14	Medium	Eye Level	Interview style shot of Bobby talking (photos in background)
1.15	Close up		Shrine of victims
1.16	Extreme Close Up / Cut in		Photo in shrine
1.17	Close up	Eye Level	Bobby smiling into camera
2.1	Extreme Close Up		Phone rings
2.2	Mid Shot	Eye Level Handheld pan	Bobby answering phone & sitting down
2.3	Mid Shot	Side angle	Bobby hearing call/speaking then smiles
2.4	Extreme Close Up		Phone hanging up (put back in holder)
2.5	Medium Close Up	Eye Level	Bobby speaking “her name is Poppy…”
3.1	Wide shot	Pan	Park
3.2	Long shot		Poppy walking in park
3.3	Mid Shot	Eye Level	Poppy introduces herself (goes to voiceover)
3.4	Wide shot	Over the shoulder	Poppy doing makeup (view of her in mirror)
3.5	Wide shot		Walking and smiling
3.6	Wide shot	Over the shoulder	Poppy on a bed on her phone
3.7	Medium Close Up	Eye Level	“I’ve seen photos of Bobby…”
4.1	Wide shot	Pan	Bobby walking in park
4.2	Extreme Close Up / Cut in		Bobby’s hands (nervous)
4.3	Medium Close Up	Eye Level	Bobby looking over shoulder
4.4	Long shot	handheld	Bobby leaning against wall, Poppy approaches from behind
4.5	Two shot, mid shot		Poppy & Bobby introducing themselves to e/o
4.6	Over the Shoulder (looking at Poppy)		“What are you treating me to?”
4.7	Over the Shoulder (looking at Bobby)		“Its a surprise…”
4.8	Wide shot (Zoom out)	handheld	Backs of Bobby & Poppy walking away
	TITLE SCREEN	Stop motion, lasts <5s
5.1	Establishing shot	Pan	Bobby’s House
5.2	Close up		Bobby sharpening knives
5.3	Mid Shot	Make wine & knives prominent	Bobby setting table
5.4	Extreme Close Up		Knives on table
5.5	Medium Close Up	Pan from knives	Bobby: “here we go”
5.6	Mid Shot	handheld, following behind bobby	Bobby goes to door
5.7	Mid-Long Shot	Knees up, behind poppy	Bobby waiting at door with poison bottle behind her back
5.8	Extreme Close Up		Poison behind her back
5.9	Mid Shot		Poppy putting away poison, door begins to open
5.10	Over the Shoulder	View of Poppy’s face, match on action	Bobby opening door, Poppy greeting
5.11	Over the Shoulder	View of Bobby’s face	“You too..”, pulls her in for hug
5.12	Close up		Bobby closes eyes & smells her hair
5.13	Mid-two shot	Back of Poppy, Bobby is visible  Handheld	Poppy pulls away, Bobby motions her inside & she follows. Door closes
6.1	Mid-Long Shot	View of table with door in background	Couple enter through door, “I have the perfect set up..”, Poppy pours wine
6.2	Mid Shot	Profile of actors from the head of the table	Bobby sits down, “So Poppy..”
6.3	Over the Shoulder	Alternate as couple speak	“I want to know you inside out…”
7.1	Medium Close Up		Bobby sits down on the left, “I think its going really well..”
7.2	Medium Close Up	Poppy sitting on right	Poppy’s interview
8.1	Mid Shot	Back to same profile shot of table	“So where do you see this..” … “prepare the meat”
8.2	Over the Shoulder (looking at Poppy)		“No problem, could you show me the bathroom..”
8.3	Over the Shoulder (looking at Bobby)		“Of course”, turns to walk out door & can see Poppy moving
8.4	Mid-Long Shot	View of wine glasses and Poppy	Poppy hastily pours poison into wine glass & drops bottle on to table
8.5	Extreme Close Up		Poison bottle lying sideways on table
8.6	Mid Shot		Poppy gets up, brushes herself off & follows Bobby
8.7	Mid-Long Shot	handheld, following behind Poppy	Poppy being guided to the downstairs bathroom. Bobby holds open the second door for her, grabs knife. “Let me get that for you”
8.8	Close up		Knife held behind Bobby’s back
8.9	Mid-two shot	Low angle, Poppy standing in front of Bobby	Bobby stabs her, she falls to the ground & shot of Bobby with bloody knife
8.10	Mid Shot	handheld & zoom	Poppy lying on ground with knife in back
8.11	Extreme Close Up		Poppy’s legs being dragged along the floor
8.12	Extreme Close Up	Pan	Poppy's hands being dragged through blood, leaving bloody handprints
9.1	Close up		Bobby puts herbs on top of pasta dish
9.2	Extreme Close up	Pan from pasta then zoom out to shot of Poppy’s framed photo	Insert of recipe “Poppy Puttanesca”
9.3	Mid Shot	Extremely slow zoom	Bobby at head of table. Takes a sip of wine, notices poison bottle, then looks straight at the camera. Head drops. Black