1. Shot / Visuals #1 Duration Camera Instructions Soundtrack
Dialogue /
Story Comment
0.03’’ WS shot ice rink from
spectator’s POV
Dance music /mix
with skating rink
ambience
No dialogue
in this title
sequence
Standard establishing WS
to show location - happy ice
rink people having fun.
Establishes equiibrium
(Todorov)
Shot / Visuals #2 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
0.03’’ Pan across rink to find
Karen in LONG SHOT
(LS)
Music continues and
we hear Karen talking
& ambient noise of
rink - laughter/ice
blades on ice
Karen
chatting
about the
skating - no
written
dialogue
This establishes Karen as
one of the main characters
in the story - but what sort
of story is it?
Shot / Visuals #3 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.02’’ LONG SHOT Gary Music continues in b/g
FADE UP ambient
noise of rink & Karen's
voice
Karen's voice attracts Gary -
she is laughing
2. Shot / Visuals #4 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.03 MID SHOT Karen
looking camera right
Only ambient noises
of skates on ice - no
music - hollow echoed
laughter
Karen sees Gary and thinks
he is laughing at her
Shot / Visuals #5 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.03 MID SHOT Gary being
cheeky to Karen as she
chases him
as above with slow
mix back to dance
music
Suggestion of evil intent by
Gary – (this is a red herring)
Shot / Visuals #6 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.04 WS shot ice rink
Camera pans and
zooms to find where
the scream is coming
from
Sound of skater
crashing into the crash
board around the rink
& a scream. CUT to
Series music -
muscular with heavy
back beat
Sets up tease - is this a rom
com love story or something
else?
3. Shot / Visuals #7 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.02 Camera fins MS Gary
in a different corner
clearly not part of any
malevolent action
Everything seemed normal
– scream establishes genre
of crime drama and not rom-
com.
Shot / Visuals #8 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.03 CU Karen look of
horror
series music - guitars,
back beat, horns and
persussion
Karen has witnessed a
terrible murder on the ice
which we do not see
Shot / Visuals #9 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.03 Canted WS of group
with Karen in shock
and pointing
series music plus
crying / ambulance
sirens/ etc
Canted angle shows
disequilibrium
4. Shot / Visuals #10 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.02 CU Skaters boots at
different angles
CUT Pictures to major
beat of music
Quick close Ups of skaters
boots cut with music to
show increase of tension
Shot / Visuals #11 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.02 DVE title FORENSIC UK
zooms out of mid
frame to full frame.
Super title on
FORENSIC UK intercut
shots of skatingboots
and blades
Guitars - upbeat lead
riff with throbbing
base line
Start of graphics sequence
for the crime series called
FORENSIC UK
Shot / Visuals #12 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.03 CU of skate blade –
FREEZE FRAME – add
in post prod star filter
flashes & red colour +
DVE star explosion
DISSOLVE to
Add horns with series
theme music,
pulsating beat.
Climax of title sequence to
hook viewers - on some
channels there would be a
commercial break at this
point
5. Shot / Visuals #13 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.04
WS Skating rink with
skaters moving
towards the crime
scene
MUSIC punctuates
title graphics
slow mix out of music
to
sound of skates on ice
The actual crime has not
been observed yet - the idea
is to create tension and
suspense and prepare the
audience for graphic scenes
of body laceration from a
sharp ice skate blade (as in
US forensic series)
Shot / Visuals #14 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story
Comment
0.05 Freeze Frame CU Feet
in Mortuary
Just ambient sounds
of ice rink - no music
no alarms, slow mix to
diegetic sound of
opening shot of the
drama
Getting back to the reality of
the crime and horror of the
death
