Production Process

Amber Valley - Script


EXT:Bench Scene:

Corbin: What’s up?

Lily: I’m sorry!

Corbin: What do you mean?

Lily: I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to, it just happened.

Corbin: Didn’t mean to do what?

Lily: Didn’t you get my text?

Corbin: No...?

Lily: Oh my god!

Corbin: What have you done?

Lily: I didn’t mean to. It was just the booze... and the atmosphere! I slept with her! I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to! I’m sorry! It’s you I wanna be with, not her. I’m sorry; please don’t do this to me...

Corbin: You’ve had problems with booze before, but this is way too far. I can’t believe you’ve done this. After everything...

Lily: I didn’t mean to, it just happened!

Corbin: I’ve told you about the booze before --

Lily: I’m sorry!

Corbin: I, I just can’t forgive you again.

Lily: No, don’t do this!

Corbin: I’m sorry.

Lily: No, don’t do this!..I LOVE YOU!

EXT:Wall Scene:

Lily: Corbin, it didn’t mean anything, It didn’t mean anyth--*scream*

Corbin: So it meant nothing, did it?

Lily: No!

Corbin: All the booze, and now this?

Lily: I’m sorry.

Corbin: You will be sorry.

Lily: I’m sorry, it just, it didn’t mean anything!

Corbin: I don’t want you in my life anymore.


Voice Over Script:

To add more technical elements to our trailer we included a voice over. As well as adding more depth it also aided the explanation of the storyline for our audience.

Keaira:They think I’ve got schizophrenia, they’re wrong.... they’re all wrong. They just want to say I’m mad so they can get me. So they can hurt me. Do nasty things to me in the dark and lock me up. They’ll never get me alive. I won’t let them

Storyboard: 




Camera Maps:




Amber Valley - Written Storyboard


Main Plot overview: Protagonist Lily is embroiled in a passionate Lesbian love affair with fiery vixen Bella. Faced with one of the toughest decisions in her life, Lily has to choose between her current relationship with Corbin or the seemingly Over encumbered lust with Bella. No longer being able to handle the guilt Lily comes clean to Corbin about what she has done. After a few arguments heated arguments we then see Corbin walk over to the forest where we are led to presume he has committed suicide due to the revelations. 


Sub Plot overview:  Keaira is Bellona’s sister who equally faces her own troubles. Later within the soap it would become apparent she has paranoid schizophrenia and this is what our scenes within our trailer represent – her demise from sanity. 


Shot 1: Long shot of Lily drinking from a bottle with her name displayed onscreen. The colours are reduced in the background to emphasize the introduction of Lily; the main character. The camera then continues to pan following Lily to the tree.

Shot 2: Cut to mid-shot of Bella smoking and looking apathetic in a vandalised area with her name displayed onscreen.

Shot 3: High angled shot of writing being inscribed on the paper. Shot is met with a black & white overlay.

Shot 4: Long shot of Keaira rocking backwards and forwards manically. Black and white overlay again.

Shot 5: Over the shoulder shot of texting on a mobile.

Shot 6: Long shot of Corbin walking up to the bench where Lily is sat, upon which he places a hand on her shoulder.

Shot 7: Quick cut to a flash-back part of our montage involving Lily picking up a unit of alcohol. The camera tracks her stumbling movement down the tunnel.

Shot 8: Mid shot of a crying Lily on the bench with Corbin comforting her.

Shot 9: Face on mid shot of Lily with her head in her hands. A few seconds late the colour around Lily drains as it is emphasized on Corbin to introduce his name to the audience. Colour then goes back to normal as the camera pans back to Lily enabling us to enter another flashback.

Shot 10: Mid shot of Lily and Bella holding hands outside a room.

Shot 11: Low angled shot of both Lily and Bella kissing.

Shot 12: Long shot with a black and white overlay of Keaira running manically up and down a corridor repeatedly.

Shot 13: Mid shot of Keaira rocking backwards and forwards manically. Black and white overlay again.

Shot 14: First person view of Lily smoking.

Shot 15: High angled shot of Corbin arguing with Lily.

Shot 16: High angled over the shoulder shot of Lily looking upset.

Shot 17: Close-up of Lily crying up against a tree.

Shot 18:  Long shot of Lily falling to the ground in an attempt to look for something she has dropped.

Shot 19: Birds-eye view of scribbling on paper with a black and white overlay. Also includes motion effects that create a double view of the action – portraying to the audience a sense of mental instability.

Shot 20: High angled shot of Keaira lay on the floor with a black and white overlay.

Shot 21: Keaira dragging her fingers down the window with a black and white overlay. Motion effects that create a double view of the action are used again.

Shot 22: Ripped paper is put back together via usage of reversal editing. Black and white overlay is used.

Shot 23: Cut to high angled over the shoulder shot of Lily looking upset.

Shot 24: Low angled shot of both Lily and Corbin to capture facial emotion.

Shot 25: Cut to mid shot of Lily and Belly kissing.

Shot 26: First person view walking behind a drunken Lily; camera ways from side to side to emphasize this disorientation further.

Shot 27: High angled shot of Keaira on the floor with a black and white overlay.

Shot 28: Same shot but now from a long distance.

Shot 29: Keaira sits up with a black and white overlay still used. Towards the end of the shot her motion is also slowed down.

Shot 30: Close-up of Keaira’s eyes and stern face. Black and white overlay used.

Shot 31: Mid shot of Corbin leant against the wall. Lighting of the shot features light on one side, and darkness on the other – representing his frame of mind.

Shot 32: Face on long shot of Corbin. Lily joins the shot a second later running up to him.

Shot 33:  Close-up of Corbin pinning Lily against a wall with her visibly shaken.

Shot 34: Long shot of Lily walking around holding her head and a bottle of alcohol. The camera tracks her movement.

Shot 35: Slightly low angled long mid shot of Corbin again pinning Lily against the wall.

Shot 36: High angled tracking shot of Lily sliding down the wall as an emotional wreck after the argument with Corbin.

Shot 37: Long shot of Corbin walking away towards the woods.

Shot 38: Writing being scrawled on a window by Keaira in regards to an undeveloped storyline. Shot contains a black and white overlay.

Shot 39: Face on zoom towards Keaira’s face with her hands on the top of her head. Shot contains a black and white overlay.

Shot 40: Long shot with a black and white overlay of Keaira running manically up and down a corridor repeatedly again.

Shot 41: Long shot of Corbin walking up to a rope.

Shot 42: Low angled shot of the rope being pulled down connoting Corbin has committed suicide.

Shot 43: Extreme close-up of Corbin’s feet dangling. Fade to black.

Shot 44: Panning shot of the location.

Shot 45: Show’s name, date, and channel appear on a black background.

Shot 46: Fade to black.


Potential Soap Ideas:


Potential Soap Ideas – Planning

Setting: Town, and also potentially using a more rural setting alongside this – such as the outskirts. The soap will be set in modern day society.

Characters:

Character 1 – Male, a potential murder suspect. He’s believed to be a troubled teen due to personal, family issues. Due to this he appears extremely jaded.

Character 2 – Female, town’s gossip. She knows the ins and outs of the town, yet that doesn’t mean her information gets exaggerated or bleary from time to time.

Character 3 – Female, slightly ditzy and paranoid. Believes that everyone thinks she’s the murderer even though that’s simply not the case.  Even begins to leave ‘clues’ for the police as if she herself is the murderer yet writes the notes/messages in a different style to her own. This is just an attempt by herself to reassure her that people don’t suspect she’s the murderer.  – Schizophrenic.

Character 4 – Male, extreme countertype. A weak character physically and appears placid. Yet is he? Looks can be deceiving.

Character 6 – Female, anti-social. Leaning towards a more goth/emo nature yet it isn’t quite made clear. She’s also being drawn towards self-harm. Becoming slightly schizophrenic; could a voice inside her head push her into murder?

Character 7 – Male, murder victim. Alive for part of the trailer, he was loathed by mainly everyone within the previously idyllic town.

Storyline Synopsis

A previously private town is rocked by a murder, but the question on everyone’s’ lips is who dun’ it? And with only the towns gossip’s words to go on, who’s to say she’s reliable? Seven Characters from across the spectrum are now embroiled in a huge scandal, but who’s innocent and who’s sinister? There’s sure to be surprises lurking around each and every corner.

 Locations:

Town Centre Sundial – Exact centre of the town, a meeting place for characters – place where most storylines are started or explored in further detail.

House - Different rooms can be used depending on the character to represent different homes. Here is where they feel they can act ‘themselves’.

Desolate Woodlands – Place where the murder was committed. Isolated location portrays feelings of the unknown.



Shooting Schedule:

In regards to the production process I have created a shooting schedule that will enable our group to organise exactly when scenes will be filmed, the content needed within, and furthermore which characters are going to be needed. By creating this schedule I will be fully aware of what scenes have been filmed, what needs to be further done, and also consider if anymore scenes shall be needed

Scene 1: To be filmed on 06/11/10. Characters of Lilith and Bellona 'love' scenes to be shot. INT: School Hallway.
Scene 2: To be filmed on 06/11/10. Characters of Bellona and Jacob scenes to be shot INT: Classroom. Jacob is to be killed.
Scene 3: To be filmed on 14/11/10. Character of Keaira scenes to be shot. INT: Public Library. Scenes of disparity and emotional instability. 
Scene 4: To be filmed on 22/11/10. Characters of Corbin and Lilith to be shot. EXT: Recreation Ground. Scenes of suicide, and love.