This document provides camera instructions and dialogue for a film noir trailer. It consists of 15 shots ranging from 2 to 10 seconds in length. The shots establish a murdered victim, introduce a detective investigating the case and a promiscuous woman, show the corpse and crime scene, and tease a newspaper headline about the murder without revealing details. They aim to pique audience interest while maintaining an air of mystery around the crime and its perpetrator.

1. Shot Duration Camera Instructions Dialogue/music Comment
/SFX
2 second No camera movement but cut’s to next No sound. No comment.
shot.
2 seconds No camera movement but fades into next No sound but as the shot No comment.
shot. comes to an end the sound
effects for the next scene
start and get louder as the
shot appears.
4/5 seconds Low angle shot. No dialogue Low angle shot looks up at woman
walking down the street, creates a
Tilt up. SFX – “clicking’ of the dominant look for the female and
woman’s high heeled makes her look superior. We don’t
shoes” as she walks down necessarily see her full body but we
the street. can tell by her costume that she is
female as the actress will be
wearing high heels and a dress. This
introduces the female character to
start with by showing the woman’s
face.

2. 5 seconds Mid close up (MCU) Detective V/O: “THERE’S Man reading the case file of the
NOTHING WORSE THAN murder victim. The man will be
INVESTIGATING A MURDER holding the case file in one hand and
CASE” a glass filled with brandy/whisky in
the other. The mid-shot will enable
This will clearly establish the audience to see what objects
the type of crime that has are on the detectives desk which
been involved in the film will add to the mise en scene for the
since crime is a typical props and setting to help build up
convention of the film noir the character.
genre.
3 seconds Close up of the case file being slammed SFX “file being slammed The case file will be slammed down
down on the desk onto table.” onto the table by the detective,
there will be a zoom in to the text
Fast paced spin to zoom in onto ‘case saying ‘case file’ but no names are
file’ text shown on the paper so that it does
not immediately give away who the
case file is regarding. The purpose of
this is to inform the audience that
there has been some form of crime
committed but the audience are still
unaware of details about it.
10 seconds Close up’s (CU) and two shots. Faint romantic soundtrack This scene will be a mixture of the
so that it is not dominant women seducing different men. We
Tilts and pans of the different males. in the scene but creates will feature roughly 5 different men
the ‘romantic’ for approximately 2 seconds each
atmosphere. which will create the promiscuous
effect for the actress. This shot is
used to introduce more characters
to show that the woman featured is
quite promiscuous since she is
involved with a lot of men.

3. 4/5 seconds Mid shot (MS). SFX “gun fire.” This shot will be a shadow against a
brick wall and show the shooting.
No camera movement. This will be heard exactly The use of the black shadow will not
when the shot cuts to the show the audience who committed
next scene. the shooting. As well as this, we are
unaware of who has been murdered
which creates the element of
mystery.
3 seconds Mid shot (MS) to fade out. Slightly eerie sound track We will not show the person who
for the body lying on the has been murdered in the shot so
No camera movement. floor. that the crime remains a mystery.
The mid shot will show the actor’s
body on the ground so we can easily
tell that he is dead and furthermore,
we can establish some of the scene
behind the corpse so that we can
see the setting etc.
3/4 seconds Mid shot. (MS) SFX “Woman laughing” The shot will show a woman
counting money and laughing as she
Camera zooms out to midshot. does this. The female will hear a
door open and turn around looking
surprised, this will cause her to look
into the camera.

4. 5 seconds Over the shoulder shot. Detective V/O: “...BUT IT’S The over the shoulder/reflection will
EVEN WORSE WHEN IT’S zoom out so that we can see a
Zooms out to figure behind. YOUR OWN WIFE’S.” figure walking through the door, we
will see this in the mirror.
The dialogue continuing
from the previous shot
shows the reasons why the
detective is saying about
the murder cases. The long
pause between the shots
could suggest that the
detective is fairly troubled
by the event and cannot
get his words out if he is
upset/traumatised.
2 seconds Fast spin onto screen. No sound. The newspaper headline will tell the
audience there has been a murder
Zooms to close up. however, no other information will
be revealed so that the film/trailer
remains a mystery.
6 seconds Fast edit onto screen. Fades out quickly. No sound. No comment.

5. 4 seconds No camera movement. No sound. No comment.
2 second No camera movement. No sound. No comment.