Location Plans

 Scene 1 - Herne Hill Tunnel

Scene 2: Cafe [Perks and White - Herne Hill]

Scene 3: street 

Scene 4: Street corner 

Scene 6/7

Shot list

 

Script

 

Over - Jorn Threlfall

 

Over is a short film, about the events that followed a mans death after he fell from an airplane approaching Heathrow Airport. We see the events take place in reverse order, meaning the audience is forced to slowly work out what has happened, building a sense of foreboding to the actual event which we only see in the final scene. This sense is also added to by the use of long takes, with each scene comprising of very few shots, that last a long time, meaning we are forced to wait longer to find out what has happened. The scene are sometimes broken up by close up shot of the evidence taken from the body, which allows us to gain a slow understanding of who the person was, and the situation they might have been in. For instance the photo, shows us he had a family, creating a feeling of empathy towards him, and therefore further adding to the sense of foreboding for what is to come. 

The use of sound is also important, as the continuous diegetic sound accompanying each scene creates a sense of realism, suiting the theme of this film as a true story. Furthermore, the airplane sound in the final scene, is used functionally to give us a clue to what has happened, even before it tells us before the credits. The music at the end, a sadder version of 'somewhere over the rainbow', also helps to create a sadder feel to the story. It suggests a trip that should have been happy, but instead went wrong for the man. As the credits role, it leaves us with an almost mournful feel. 

Operator - Caroline Bartleet

The Operator is a short film following an operator responding to a call from a woman experiencing a house fire. However, the viewer never sees the events of the fire and instead stays focused on the woman responding to the call, in a series of close up shots. We are left instead to imagine the events we can hear through the phone. We first hear the voice of the mother, panicked asking for help. She states that her son is upstairs and despite the operator telling her not to, we hear her run up the stairs to get to him. We watch the operator talk her through keeping smoke out the room and getting to a window, when we finally hear the sirens of fire engines and her and her sons rescue from the house. After the phone cuts off, all sound entirely cuts out, leaving a powerful impression of the work of an operator, making us empathise with what she goes through for her work. The sounds of her workplace then resumes and we see her pick up another phone call. This helps us see that, as dramatic as the events of the film were for the viewer, this woman has to keep going through it again and again.

Treatment

 Act 1 – set up  

The first act begins with a woman, dressed smartly transporting a famous piece of artwork in a bag for her boss, an art collector, shot in a comic book style. She is on the phone to her boss, stating she will be arriving soon, [and walks past posters of the art she is delivering, announcing it had been bought for millions]. As she speaks to him, she realizes she is being followed by a gang of people, likely trying to steal the expensive art in her bag. As she turns back around, she also realizes they have cut off her path to the meeting place. She diverts into a nearby cafe, where a teenage boy is working, cleaning up the shop before closing. He wears his work attire, and snacks on a chocolate bar. Seeing her walk in, he smiles, grudgingly admitting he decided to close up early, and asks if she wants her regular. Comprehending that she will not be able to get the art to her boss without being intercepted, she recruits the boy working in the cafe to deliver it for her, hoping he will be able to slip past the gang for her. She promises him money, to which he agrees. She tells him to take it to the meet up point, which is just round the corner from the cafe. She then leaves the cafe, explaining the change of plans quietly to her boss. The boy picks up the bag and leaves the cafe.  

Act 2 

We watch the boy, walking with the bag to the meeting place. As he walks, various gang members pass him, clearly following after the woman, and the boy watches them uneasily. As he looks behind him to watch them go, he accidentally bumps into another gang member, and drops the bag. The man looks down at him menacingly, and he tries to push past the man, not realizing he’d dropped the bag in the commotion. There is a tense moment as the man stops him in his path, looking down at him. He looks back up at the man, fearfully, but the man simply passes him the bag back from the floor, telling him to watch where he was going. The boy hurriedly thanks him, before rushing to the meeting place 

 

Act 3 – resolution  

The art collector boss, is still on the phone to the woman, saying he's been watching the boy approach the meeting point and hes almost there, just as the boy rushes into the shop. The boy passes him the bag, and the boss thanks him, giving him more money for his trouble. The boy thanks the man before leaving. The art collector opens the bag and withdraws the item inside. His face falls, and the camera dollies to his hand clasping an empty chocolate bar wrapper. The camera cuts to the boy in the cafe who looks down at something on the table in front of him. It is revealed that the famous artwork sits in front of him, unwrapped from its packaging. The camera zooms out to reveal the gang stood around him. There is a quick series of flashbacks where we see him watching the woman first approaching the cafe, him nodding at the man he later bumps into, and him smiling slightly after bumping into him, where it is shown that during the interaction the bags were switched. It cuts back to the present, where the boy holds the money to his face, examining it. He stands and walks through his gang members, telling them to get the artwork to the buyer