The document provides a 21-shot list for a trailer depicting the kidnapping and hostage situation of a woman in her home. The shots include close-ups of a ticking clock, flashbacks of the woman's parents being killed, the woman reading a text from her husband saying he'll be home soon, the footsteps of the killer walking down the street, the woman answering the door and being taken hostage, the killer phoning the husband and demanding something from him, and finally hearing sirens as the clock strikes 12. The document also provides context that a shot list helps envision how the screenplay will look on screen and that creating a rough shot list in advance can help limit disagreements and waste of time during filming.

1. Trailer Plan:
Shot List

2. Rough Shot List
• 1st Shot : Clock ticking from 8:58 - close up
FLASHBACKS
• 2nd Shot : Dad – Being dragged (killed) - tracking shot
• 3 Shot :Back to the Clock
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- eye-line match
• 4 Shot :Mum – Screams
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- tracking shot
• 5th Shot : Back to Clock - eye-line match
• 6 Shot : Husband coming out of the Marriot Hotel
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- establishing shot / pan
• 7 Shot : Text from husband – “I’ll be home soon hun”
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- extreme close up
• 8th Shot : Shot of woman reading the text - High angle shot
• 9 Shot : Shot of woman watching a Rom-com in her living room
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- Over the shoulder shot
• 10 Shot: Footsteps of the killer walking down the streets
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- pan / tracking shot
• 11th Shot: Woman holding the ring around her finger smiling - extreme close up
• 12 Shot: Husband walking (or on public transport) – he’s delayed – texts wife
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- medium shot - extreme close up
• 13 Shot: Wife puts the volume up and doesn’t get the text
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- close up
• 14th Shot: Killer knocks on the door - over-the-shoulder shot
• 15 Shot: Wife excitedly runs down the stairs and drops photo frame
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- long shot – extreme close up of frame
• 16 Shot: Wife opens the door – Killer holds her hostage in her own house.
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- medium shot
• 17th Shot: The killer phones husband - over the shoulder
• 18 Shot: Husband gets phone call
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- medium shot
• 19 Shot: Husband owes the killer, wants some sort of file - demands no police
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- low angle shot
• 20th Shot: Woman and killer hears sirens and we hear a scream. - tracking shot
• 21 Shot: The clock going 12
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- extreme close up

3. A shot list is simply that – a list of all of the shots in your film. When you
have completed your screenplay, a shot list is a great way to imagine how
it will look on the screen. You simply make a list of all the shots in your
film from beginning to end.
The production process is very important as we can transform words on
paper into colour, emotion and life on screen.
There are many aspects to pre-production planning, but we're just going
to focus on two of them here: the storyboard and the shot list. As we are
working on a small production, then we will be doing everything ourselves.
Saba and I decided to create a rough shot list so when it comes to filming
our trailer it is much clearer as well as saving more time as we will know
what shots to use which can limit disagreements as well as making our
thought process more clearer and so this then can lead to us both not
wasting time on making various shot lists whilst filming and so this can
benefit us both as we are more likely to make a better trailer as a result of
early and clear decision making.