Our Film Name

Our film title took a lot of time to decide on, we came up other ideas like decisions and choices, due to the main plot of our film, however we found this too boring and simple. We looked at the film Inception and noticed the narrative and genre were very similar and noticed the name as we believed it was very effective for a film title. So therefore after a lot of research on names we decided to sum up our film in one word and we came to the conclusion that our film was genuinely about two choices. So we looked up choices in a thesaurus and came with a number of different words we could possibly use as our titles. However the word intersection really stood out to us, and the initial meaning was crossing of two paths of which our character experiences within our short film. So our film name is Intersection. We looked at other film names amd discovered the film name "Inception" was really effective and complex so we then thought ours followed a similar pattern.

Shooting Script

Scene
Shots	Shot description	Audio and dialogue
1	Sweeping panning shot through the crowded train station and establishing shot to show Lucas walking onto the train platform.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
2	Point of view shot from Lucas’ perspective as he moves through the crowd.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
3	Shot of Lucas’s feet running through the crowd, in fear he will miss the train.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
4	Mid shot of Grace walking along on train platform. Grace’s face in focus, whilst everything else is out of focus, signifying her importance.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
6	Over the shoulder shot of Lucas looking out into the crowd.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
7	Slow motion shot of the clock hand’s moving, emphasising its importance.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
8	Long shot of an empty train track, with the train approaching in the distance.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
9	Long shot of Lucas rushing through the crowd as the train pulls up.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
10	Close up of the train pulling up.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
11	Grace rushes forward and slips as her papers and bags go flying – match on action and slow motion.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
12	Close up of Lucas’ reaction to Grace falling.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
12	Point of view pan between train and Grace on the floor, indicating how Lucas has a decision to make.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
10	Shot of Lucas on train platform, cuts to 2 ghost shots, one where he walks towards Grace and the other where he walks towards the train – representing the 2 different paths.	Diegetic sound of crowd and non-diegetic music.
11	Close up of shaky hand, representing a job interview.	Non-diegetic music.
12	Establishing shot of Grace and Lucas at a romantic meal.	Non-diegetic music.
13	Mid-shot of Lucas on the phone in his office.	Non-diegetic music.
14	Establishing shot of Grace and Lucas on the beach together.	Non-diegetic music.
15	Shot of Lucas stressed out at work – unhappy.	Non-diegetic music.
16	Shot of Lucas proposing to Grace – happy.	Non-diegetic music.
17	Shot of Lucas in his mansion all on his own.	Non-diegetic music.
18	Shot of Lucas and Grace buying their first house together.	Non-diegetic music.
19	Split screen to show Lucas opening a letter in both lives.	Non-diegetic music.
20	Long shot of Lucas opening letter in his mansion all alone with no one to celebrate with. Long shot of Lucas opening letter with his wife. – Split Screen – contrasting the two lives.	Non-diegetic music.
21	Rewind time, back to Lucas standing on the train platform.	Non-diegetic music.
22	Close up of Lucas’ foot as he walks off - audience are left to wonder what path he has taken.	Non-diegetic music.

This shooting script shows our main shots of our film in as much detail as we can think of at the moment. However our group have decided that we may work on thinking up some much more complex shots to add to our short film and we plan to work on this and get extra shots to add to the length and pace of the film while filming.

Sliding Doors Analysis

Sliding Doors is possibly the most similar film to our concept and narrative. It explores a double narrative and a choice and also relates closely to the train idea. The conventions used are very similar and inspiring. Furthermore a convention used is the sound effect at the point where the mains characters life changes. Although you do not see two completely separate lives you see how her life changes and differs from when she catches the train and catches her boyfriend having an affair and when she does not and continues to live her life with her dishonest boyfriend.

The parallel narrative also is very similar to our idea however we aim to make ours original by adding a ghost shot where you see the two flash forward moments at the same time. With using conventions like split screen and lighting to demonstrate the two different lives.

The poster of sliding doors could potentially corrospond closely to ours. It gives a small amount of information about the film, and the mirror image of the woman in her two different lives shows the plot has a split narrative of which we hope to show also.

Survey

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From handing this survey out we realised our audience would be mostly female 18-35 year olds. We noticed that well known actors and actresses attracted certain audiences, however we do not have access to famous actors so we decided to use actors and actresses within the age group of our demograph.