Main Task - 4 - Plot Development

Written timeline of 'The Naked Gun' opening:

Timing   Information

0:00 -    'Paramount Pictures presents'
0:03 -    Opening shot of police car and siren (on) driving down a road with music playing.
0:05 -    'a Zucker Abrahams Zucker production'
0:10 -    'Leslie Nielsen'
0:16 -    'The Naked Gun' 
0:17 -    'From the files of Police Squad!'
0:22 -    Cuts to car driving up pavement with people jumping out the way.
0:24 -    'Priscilla Presley'
0:30 -    'George Kennedy'
0:32 -    Cuts to car going through a car wash.
0:35 -    'Richardo Montalban'
0:41 -    'O.J Simpson   Rayne Birk'
0:44 -    Cuts to car going into a house and moving between rooms.
0:50 -    'casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A and Pamela Basker, C.S.A'
0:56 -    'associate producers John D. Schofield  Kevin M. Marcy'
1:03 -    'music by Ira Newborn'
1:09 -    'costume designer Mary E. Vogt'
1:13 -    Cuts to siren in a girls locker room
1:15 -    'editor Michael Jablow'
1:21 -    Cuts to siren on a rollercoaster
1:23 -    'production designer John J. Lloyd'
1:27 -    'director of photography Robert Stevens'
1:31 -    'witten by Jerry Zucker  Jim Abrahams  David Zucker  Pat Proft'
1:35 -    'produced by Robert K. Weiss' Cuts to final shot
1:38 -    'directed by David Zucker'

Timeline of our film

Above is the timeline for our film, from this we can see the shots that are needed, along with any props and mis-en-scene details that are required. We also know that our opening will be 1 minute and 40 seconds long.

Synopsis of our film

• Title of film: School's Out
• Genre: Social Comedy
• Target Audience: 12+
• 
  Logline: 'Two opposite students are tasked with finding the missing people from their school.'
• Full Synopsis: Two (hating each other) students awake in an empty school, with no recolation of the day. School staff and students has disappeared appart from these two. After an earthquake alarm went, these two students were fighting and promptly knocked each other out. After waking up, they attempt to find the others, not aware of the earthquake alarm, and therefore that everyone has evacuated. Their mission apears to be finding clues to everyone's whereabouts with hilarious misunderstandings of an alien abduction and kidnapping that eventually brings the students closer.
• Opening Sequence Outline: The two students will be shown waking up in a dark classroom, they stumble up and leave the classroom to go back to a room they had been in earlier.