CAMERA SHOT LIST
Production title How to Survive a Slasher Sheet no. 1
Director
Ben Brown
Date 10.3.23
Location
Fulford
Scene 1-18
Shot # Shot size / angle Movement Notes
1
Far Away, Straight (The
film will start with this
shot which is of a full
moon outside.) Still Outside
2
Far Away, Straight
(This will be a shot of a
spooky isolated house at
night.) Still Outside
3
Close Up, Moving (This
shot will move in close
on the spooky, isolated
house slowly to increase
the feeling of menace.) Panning Outside
4
Medium, Straight (A
girl in a state of panic in
the driver’s seat of a car
frantically trying to start
it. The filming will be
through the windscreen
view of the car.) Still Outside
5
Close Up, Moving (To
the driver’s side of the
car, a killer [Pale Face]
walking up slowly with
the camera following his
movements slightly
shaky. Only the side of
Pale Face is filmed with
a knife in his hand to
add to the feeling of
terror.)
Panning, Moving,
Shaky Outside
6
POV, Moving (The girl
opens the car door and
runs into the house in
panic.)
Panning, Moving,
Shaky Outside
7
Medium, Straight (The
girl runs into a hallway Still Inside
and opens a cupboard
door with a corpse
falling out of the door.
The corpse’s head falls
off.)
8
Medium, Straight (The
girl screams in terror
and Pale Face enters the
room. The girl in
extreme panic runs off
screen.) Moving Inside
9
Close Up, Straight (The
camera is level to the
floor at a fixed point.
From this point of view,
you see the girl’s feet
running and the feet of
Pale Face walking
slowly after her. You
see the girl trip and fall
over some debris on the
floor, the girl falls off
screen.) Still t Inside
10
Medium, Straight. (The
girl falls to the floor,
crawls to a wall, puts
her back to the wall and
begs for her life.) Still Inside
11
Close up, POV (The
camera view is from the
behind the girl over her
shoulder; Pale Face
walks towards the
camera with a knife,
Pale Face slashes the
girl’s neck with the
knife cutting her head
off.) Still Inside
12
Close up, Straight (You
see a close up shot of
the girl’s severed head
and you can see her
body in the background.
During the shot a
narration plays
explaining that this is a
public service
announcement.) Still Inside
13
Close up, Straight (A
shot of the title card.) Still Inside
14
Medium, Straight (A
film of two people (A
jock and a Hispanic
man) Still Inside
15
Far Away Straight (A
still shot of the spooky
house) Still Outside
16
Close up Straight (A
Hispanic man is sitting
in an armchair and Pale
Face walks up behind
him and slits his throat.) Still Inside
17
Close Up, Straight (A
jock is lifting weights,
the killer walks up in
front of him and stabs
him in the throat.) Still Inside
18
Close Up, Straight (A
nerd is typing laptop,
Pale Face walks up
behind him and smashes
his head into the
keyboard. Pale Face
then hits his head
repeatedly with the top
of the laptop.) Still Inside
19
Medium, Straight (A
nervous girl is scared by
the sound of a closing
door, grabs her chest,
falls to the floor gasping
and dies of a heart
attack.) Still Inside
20
Far Away, Moving
Closer, Straight (A girl
sees the body of the girl
who had the heart attack
on the floor, does not
believe the girl is dead,
and turns to see the Pale
Face hits her in the head
with an axe. The axe is
lodged in her skull. The
camera turns around and
shows Pale Face and the
back of her head. You
see Pale Face struggle to
pull the axe out of her
head.) Still (Dutch Angle) Inside
21
Medium, Straight (An
old man is shot in a
garden talking to a male
teenager warning him
not to go in the house.
You see the teen walk
off-camera. You see
blood spatter on the old
man’s face.) Still Outside
22
Close Up, Straight (A
girl walks into a door
and puts a do not disturb
sign on the doorknob.) Still Inside
23
Close Up, Straight (A
close of the girl being
choked to death with a
belt with Pale Face
behind as she lies on top
of the bed.) Still Inside
24
Close Up, Straight (A
girl sits in front of a
house and sees flashing
police car lights.) Still Outside
25
Close Up, Moving (A
police officer walking
close to the house and
Pale Face comes up
behind him and stabs
him in the back.) Moving Outside
26
Close Up, Moving (Two
people (a man and a
woman) are walking
down a hallway. The
man has a gun and the
girl is walking behind
the man.) Moving Inside
27
Medium, Still (Pale
Face is laying on the
group and the victim
shoots him in the head.) Still Inside
28
Medium, Still (A
masculine looking girl is
fighting with and stabs
Pale Face with his own
knife.) Still Inside
29
Far Away, Straight (A
shot of an isolated,
spooky house at night.) Still Outside
30
Far Away, Straight (A
shot of a vehicle and a Still Outside
girl runs into a car and it
will not start.)
31
Close Up, Straight (A
victim tries to make a
call frantically on a
phone and sees that
there is no reception.) Still
Ins
ide
32
Far Away, Straight (A
girl is running and
tripping over debris in a
hallway frantic.) Still Inside
33
Medium, Straight (A
girl walking down a
hallway hears a sound
and opens and closet
getting stabbed to
death.) Still Inside
34
Medium, Straight (Two
people are walking in
the kitchen and one
walks away getting
slashed to death by Pale
Face off-screen.) Moving Inside
35
Medium, Straight (A
shot of the COI logo as
the narrator reads.) Still Inside