Synopsis and Preproduction List

Ruslan Ivanov

Kevin Pena

Regina Nuzbrokh

Continuity Assignment: Synopsis

            The shot will open up with a close-up shot with a clock that is up on the ceiling that has its hour hand at 12 and the minute hand at 15 and a ticking sound.  We will then have a boon-shot starting at the student’s feet and moving up to his face that bears a nervous expression, all the while we hear the student’s quickening heartbeat.  A sequence of nervous twitches, in which the student is perspiring at his forehead, scratching his head, anxiously biting his lips, and taping his fingers on his table, will follow. We then shoot to a long shot of the teacher at her desk, looking over some papers, with the chalkboard behind her displaying “Exam Today. Start Time 10:30 AM End Time 12:15 PM”. This is followed by a sequence of quick shots in which the teacher glances around the class and then glances back, and also glances down at her wrist, at her watch.  The distance between the student and the teacher is shown using an extreme long shot. In the next shot, a point-of-view shot, the student begins to get up to hand in his exam; all the while we hear his heartbeat quickening, we see his nervous expression, and his determined eyes. A quick medium shot displays the object of the student’s determination – the teacher who stands at the front of the classroom, collecting the exams students hand in on their way out. As the student approaches the teacher, he trips over his awkwardly placed feet, and the audience observes this through a point-of-view shot. The students proceeds to get up in a medium close up shot. He brushes himself off in a medium close up shot. In an extreme long shot, the student then walks over to the teacher, who is standing by her desk. An over-the-shoulder shot (from the student) shows the student extending his arm to give in his paper and the teacher smiling at him endearingly. In a close up shot, their hands briefly brush each other’s when the paper is being exchanged. In a medium-close-up, the teacher and student look at each other. An extreme-close-up of their eyes (both the student’s and the teacher’s) is followed. Then, a 6-shot sequence of extreme-close-ups portrays their lips, breathing, the teacher brushing her hair behind her ear, and the student scratching his collar. In an extreme-long-shot, the teacher and student run into each other’s arms, however, as they’re about to touch, we hear a CD scratching and the camera is cut and the screen goes black. A point-of-view shot shows the teacher waking up, blinking, looking down at her watch to see 10:20, and jumping up out of her seat. She then gathers her things quickly, and in a medium-shot, exits through a door. The door happens to be the staff lounge, which is displayed on the medium shot through which the teacher is seen, though not her face, exiting.  In a long shot, the teacher runs down the hallway and opens the door to the classroom.  She then enters the classroom and accidentally drops her books, papers, and glasses – all the while, her face is not show on camera. A flat-shot displays a medium-close-up of the teacher kneeling on the ground and collecting her dropped things, when two feet enter the shot.  An extreme-close-up of a pair of hands holding glasses is shot and then boons out to the face of the student, who bears a nonchalant smile. The student hands the glasses to the kneeling teacher in this medium-shot and the teacher puts on her glasses. A tracking shot shows the teacher walking over to her desk and writing on the board “Exam Today. Start time 10:30 AM. End Time: 12:15 PM. The scene closes with the clock in the center of the shot with the hour hand on 10 and the minute hand on 30.

Preproduction List

Location Information: The area in which we will shoot is in a classroom (one that is empty and usable). It will be dimly lit/brightly lit, depending on the mood we’re going for. We will then move to another room, the teacher’s lounge that will then move into the hallway. These locations are the basic places we plan on using.

Props needed: Chalk, different outfits, glasses, books, papers

Actors: Regina, Kevin, Ruslan (maybe some extras) But it’s not essential in our planning stage.