Roles

Connor Mitchell

• Director
• Editor
• Make-up and set design
• Location Scout
• Risk Assessment
• Producer

Kieran Owens

• Co-Editor
• Producer
• Cinematogropher
• Sound and Music

Shutter - Pitch

Shutter 

The story will begin with the unnamed girl sitting on a park bench, smoking a cigarette, relaxing. Then in the distance, the infatuated boy will take photographs and watch her from afar. The story will then continue as the girl walks back home and starts to relax at home, so she does her normal activities, she eats, she reads, she has one more cigarette before getting ready for bed. But in the distance, looking at her whilst she stretches, is the aformentioned stalker. Since the girl forgot to lock the back door, he slowly comes into the house and into her room. He takes photographs of her asleep, and just before the film ends, moves the camera away from his face. 

I gained inspiration for this short opening from the Hitchcock movie 'Rear Window' and an episode of the teenage television drama; 'Skins'. 

 Both have the core element of the story, a man who is obsessed with a girl, and his expression of this is photography, in the beginning at least.

Initial Ideas

Shutter - Initial Ideas

We want to try and make a story revolving around two people and try and avoid dialogue, that I feel is important, since it is only an opening with a two minute running time, I feel like atmosphere and ambiguity will be a key feature to play off, rather than cramming the plot of a blockbuster into that amount of time.

So eventually I came up with the idea of following a day in the life of a girl and the boy who is so obsessed with a her that he follows her, takes photographs of her, then eventually breaks into her house. I want to try and document each character with fair running time and make the movie feel very realistic, like the story has no specific direction or goal as such, but the film is just a document of the two people's day.