Sunday, March 10, 2019

'Lucid Elucidations' Shot List

This is the official shot list for 'Lucid Elucidations', written by director Pierce Thomas.
This outlines all of the shots that we are intended on shooting when we reshoot our film opening.
Things are subject to change of course, but we think that this is a great outline to base our filming off of.
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Key:
(1, 2, etc.) – Multiple possibilities of the same shot; different angles/methods
(*) - a specific shot that occurs within a description

Shot List for Upcoming Shoot:
  • Close-Up: Straight on shot of clock ticking
  • Sound Match – Dripping at same tempo as clock fades in
  • (1. Mid-shot – sink dripping in foreground, rack focus to Lionel stirring in background
2. Close-Up – Lionel opening eyes)
  • Mid-shot – from back, Lionel comes into frame as he sits up, sink in background
  • (1. Mid-shot – sink in foreground again as Lionel moves to turn off sink [Shot/Reverse Shot]
2. Medium-Long Shot/Tracking Shot – from front of bed, tracks Lionel as he moves to turn off sink
3. Wide Shot - from far away, Lionel turns off sink and sits back in bed in same shot)
  • (1. Wide Shot - from front; holds as Lionel looks around, takes off bedsheet
  • 2. Over-the-shoulder/Tracking Shot - from behind Lionel, moving with him as he looks around the room, lands on silhouette laying on bed in other room)
  • (1. Close-Up - Lionel’s confused reaction to silhouette
  • 2. Pull Back from Close-Up - Lionel’s reaction to silhouette, allows us to see him begin to pull off sheets)
  • (1. Close-Up - Lionel putting feet on the ground
2. Mid-shot - from behind Lionel as he throws his feet off of the opposite side of the bed; lingers on shadow as he walks to open curtain)
  • (1. Tracking Shot - from back as he walks to curtain; Lionel pulls back curtain
2. Medium-Long Shot - from back; still, as Lionel walks to curtain)
  • (1. Low-angle Shot - outside of curtain, dummy in foreground and Lionel in background, shocked, Lionel steps around carefully
2. Close-Up - both straight on and angled, getting Lionel’s reaction)
  • Over-the-shoulder Shot - Lionel looking at dummy (cuts back to low angle)
  • (1. Wide Shot - Lionel steps around carefully, looking back at dummy before looking once again at shadow
2. Low-angle shot - of dummy, from different angle, able to see Lionel as he steps around)
3. Medium-Long Shot - from angle that looks down “corridor” dummy in foreground as Lionel steps around)
  • High angle shot/Over-the-shoulder shot - Lionel looking down at dummy in wheelchair
  • Close-Up - from side of Lionel’s face as he looks back at dummy in wheelchair then turns to look at silhouette (in background)
  • POV Shot  - silhouette behind curtain
  • (1. Close-Up - still shot of front/face of Lionel, looking at curtain, he begins to walk forward, camera does not follow
2. Close-Up/Tracking Shot - front/face of Lionel as he looks at curtain, camera follows as he begins to walk forward)
  • Over-the-shoulder shot/Tracking shot - following Lionel from the side as he walks to next room, which is empty. The room beside the empty room has its curtains drawn
  • Mid-Shot/Close-Up - still shot as he looks into room
  • (1. Push in/Whip pan - front of Lionel as he looks into room, camera turns suddenly when a crash occurs, wheelchair tipped over in background, dummy is gone
2. Over-the-shoulder shot/Whip pan - looking into room with Lionel, turning suddenly when crash occurs)
  • (1. Close-up/Rack focus - spinning wheel, empty wheelchair in foreground in focus, focus shifts to see shocked Lionel in background
2. Close-up/Shallow focus - spinning wheel, empty wheelchair constantly out of focus in foreground, only see shocked Lionel in background entire time)
  • Mid-shot - front of Lionel, looking to right at the fallen wheelchair; a shadow flashes in front of the camera, Lionel looks forward in direction of camera
  • (1. Rule of thirds - camera from behind, looking into previously empty room, it is now filled with items; Lionel a third from the left edge of the screen (not the middle)
2. Rule of thirds/Pan - the camera moves to the right, from being Lionel (who is standing to the left), the last ⅔ of the screen is the now the room in the background)


  • Mid-shot/Tracking Shot - from the front of Lionel, walking into room
  • Mid-shot/Tracking shot - from back of Lionel, walking into room
  • Close-Up - Yellow roses in a vase/ on bed
  • Close-Up - Candles
  • Wide Shot [Experimental] - shot is from the side of the room, the background being the room to the left, with the silhouette laying on the bed; the angle is fairly low, lining up the silhouette laying on the bed with the bed in the current room, making it seem like she’s lying on it (meanwhile, Lionel is strolling into the room)
  • (1. Close-Up - only shows framed picture of Lionel and girl
2. Close-Up/Tilt - from side of picture frame, framed picture of Lionel and girl, Lionel walks up, his hand comes into frame, camera follows hand arch as he brings it closer to his face
3. Close-Up/Tilt [Experimental] - straight on shot of picture frame, Lionel walks up, hand comes into frame, camera tilts upward and backward until Lionel is upside down in frame)
  • Over-the-shoulder shot - looking at picture frame with Lionel, over his shoulder
  • (1. Wide Shot - Lionel is on the right side of the room, the entire set can be seen; silhouette in back is obscured by Lionel, as he moves, it can be seen that the silhouette is sitting up
2. Mid-shot - Lionel is holding picture, *he looks at flowers on other side of the room, as he moves to go look at them, the silhouette can be seen sitting up in the background, looking at Lionel)
  • (1. *Over-the-shoulder shot - we see the flowers on the other side of the room over Lionel’s shoulder
2. *POV shot - the flowers are shown on the other side of the room; Lionel’s shoulder is not included in the shot)
  • Tracking Shot/Long take - Lionel walk around the bed is tracked in a mid shot, as he walks, the camera pulls out slightly and stops halfway as Lionel keeps walking, revealing that the silhouette is now standing at the curtain
  • (1. Mid-shot - from left, we see Lionel bend down to grab the flowers, but turn quickly as he notices something in his peripheral vision
2. Tracking shot - from front, following Lionel as he walks to flowers, goes to the right slightly as he gets closer to the flowers; background still obscured - before Lionel reaches flowers, he looks to the left (at the curtains where the silhouette was previously) and the audience can finally see that the silhouette is gone)


  • Close-Up - Lionel becoming frightened as he realizes that the silhouette is gone
  • Close-Up - Lionel’s hands detracting from flower

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