Friday, 11 November 2011

Dexter - Recreating the opening sequence

We were given "Dexter" as our opening sequence which we had to recreate. We were given a camera, tape, tripod and charger and had to remake the opening sequence shot by shot, including every detail that was made in the sequence.
Here is the opening sequence:

After watching the sequence, we made a list of frames shot by shot of what we would need to shoot.
Here is our list of shots we would have to take to complete this sequence:

  1. Man laying down with arm out - mosquito on arm (XCU)
  2. Arm - mosquito (CU)
  3. Splat, focus changes from mosquito to face of man. 
  4. DEXTER credits in orange/red, cream/burnt edges background. Blood splatter
  5. Over shoulder back of a mans head, blurred face back of head in focus
  6. finger rubbing stubble, close up
  7. CU of shaving neck area
  8. Neck shot, blood dripping down
  9. basin plug, blood splat, 2 drops jump in between.
  10. CU of neck, hand comes in and tissue absorbs blood
  11. tissue absorbs blood (CU of tissue)
  12. Carving meat, cutting through the plastic 
  13. Slicing gammon up
  14. Bending gammon 
  15. Square of gammon 
  16. Frying pan with butter in it
  17. A - chucks B - stabs meat and picks up 
  18. CU of nose and eyes jumps to ....
  19. Mouth - shoves food in. chews
  20. Breaks egg, on the side
  21. Egg in pan, (pans)
  22. Screwing yolk around the pan
  23. Ketchup splats, egg CU, fork and knife, spurts ketchup across plate 
  24. Scraps egg with knife and folk, comes in ketchup on knife
  25. Coffee ground up
  26. Grips handle of coffee filter
  27. Presses handle down
  28. Bubbles of the bottom of the coffee machine
  29. Orange being slowly sliced in half, red background, zig zag in and out
  30. XCU of cutting orange
  31. Squeezing orange, 3 shots pressing down, squishing orange till empty 
  32. Orange, different focus on orange but CU
  33. Floss wrapping around finger, cross fades, jumps to, holds it
  34. Sink brings hands up to neck, floss in mouth
  35. Shoe laces fist pulling them tight
  36. Arms, see just the edge of a lace being folded but not on camera,
  37. Shoe lace goes through eyelit of shoe
  38. Pulls tight
  39. Pulls laces up
  40. Pulls shirt over face really pulling it over his face to see his outline of his face
  41. CU pulls down
  42. Looks into camera for 5 seconds
  43. Pulls key from outside door out
  44. Walks, turns his head a bit to the camera, smiles, "ting" his head turns facing forward.

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