McGuffin Continuity Plan

Dylan - Actor 1: Suited Man

• Grey Suit jacket
• Grey Tie
• White Shirt
• Black Shoes
• Glasses

Emily - Actor 2: Kate Fur

• Green coat
• Dark blue jeans
• Black hoody
• Black military style boots

Props

• 2x Black briefcase
• 3x Brown envelope 
• Mobile phone
• Table
• 2x Chair 
• Black bag

The McGuffin Script

The McGuffin

FADE IN:

In a common industrial site a suspicious looking individual walks across whilst holding a conspicuous briefcase that appears out of the ordinary for the attire of the individual.

CUT / FADE TO:

INT. AN INDUSTRIAL AREA – OUTSIDE – DAY

CARRIER, scruffy individual, shady appearance, carrying an out of place briefcase.

CARRIER

(On phone) I’m at the meeting place, where are you? (Looks down and sees a bag on the floor)… You want me to put the bag on?..(Puts bag over head)

INT. MEETING ROOM – TIME UNKNOWN

SUITED MAN, smart appearance, official looking, powerful, appears to be anticipating the arrival of something or someone. 

CARRIER

(Already sat down,Bag off head)

SUITED MAN

…Do you have it?

CARRIER

Yes… Do you have what we agreed upon? (SUITED MAN passes envelope)

Where’s the rest? This isn’t what we agreed upon!

SUITED MAN

You’ll get the rest after your next job. That is what we ‘agreed upon’.

CARRIER

I’ll take all of my money now or I’ll walk!

SUITED MAN

I’m sure your dear mother wouldn’t appreciate that answer. (Sly smile)

CARRIER

(Scowl) Fine. (Places briefcase on the table {pause} slides the briefcase across)

SUITED MAN

(Checks the contents, approves, slides across second envelope) This is your next assignment; you may leave now.

CARRIER

Wait, I can’t keep doing this, I can’t keep doing these jobs for you.

SUITED MAN

You don’t have a choice, Kate Fur. (KATE looks distressed)

END SCENE

Preliminary Task: McGuffin Analysis

Audio

We intended originally to use a 'Zoom H1 Voice Recorder' to record our dialogue, however the audio from the 'Sony Handycam HDR-SR7' camera we used proved to work just fine. On the other hand, the scenes where we recorded outside wasn't picked up by the 'Audio Technica ATR 6550' microphone with a wind catcher on a boom, was inadequate. We therefore had to use the 'Zoom H1 Voice Recorder' then input the audio from there. We included a variety of background music and sound effects such as the click of a door, a heart beat, sinister music and suspenseful music in order to achieve the desired effects we wanted for our audience.

                                                      Visual

As mentioned earlier we used a 'Sony Handycam HDR-SR7' camera to record our shots. This worked well for shots that included a pan shot, medium shot, cut ins, close ups and extreme close ups as well as others. However when trying to film the over the shoulder shots, the camera wouldn't focus. Therefore, we were taught how to manually focus the camera, performed a trial run of how to focus the camera and will be shooting the improved shots next week.

Lighting

We required no lights for our outdoor shots seeing as it was day time and wasn't cloudy. For our studio shots we used two 'Soft Box Lights' on either side of the actors in order to provide equal coverage of lighting from the perspective of each of the camera shots. This coverage was effective as it allowed the video to come out with clear lighting for the intended purpose of clearly conveying the message we intended to show to the audience.