Lone Ranger

The scene we devised took inspiration from many different films like The Lone Ranger and StageCoach (1986). The story to the short film is that Protagonist is looking for the antagonist, who is threatening to blow up the world, and finds him lurking in the canteen. After his fist attempt to spot the antagonist, The protagonist realizes that he has snuck up behind him in an attempt to surprise the protagonist. The protagonist realizes this turns to face him head on. The two continue to stare at each other as time passes around them and the tensions start to boil and they prepare to fight. Then the School bell rings and they are forced to leave the encounter as the place will soon fill with students. So they leave and both prepare for another encounter on another day.

 The location is very key to scene as it is the setup for the whole short film and provides the perfect setting. An empty canteen is great as it has a lot of places to be used for filming. one thing that was really key about the location was that its a place where loads of people flood into. So its makes story wise a lot of sense to use it. it creates the perfect excuse for the characters to leave due to the amount of students that would have descended during their stand off.

 The characters add something that it needed. something to focus on it. Honestly with out characters it would just be a lot of jumping shots of air, and frankly that would suck. But both characters help to add a lot of tension to the piece as they are the prime creators of  the tension.
 The choice for putting the camera where we did was based purely on the best way to create tension. So it features plenty of over the shoulder, extreme close ups and a move I like to call the twisting rotation. its a move that requires  the cameraman to move a semicircle around the actor as he turns around so the camera can see his face as he turns a full 180 degrees.

The impact of your extreme long shot and extreme close ups adds a lot of really good tension as it builds with the canteen scene. That is the aim of the shots to drive up the tension so that when the climax of video is reached and the fire bell goes off all the tension is released in one go.