Media AS

LO

• Look at and analyse opening sequence from

Bourne Supremacy screenplay
• Develop own one page simple scenes to fulfil
preliminary task
• Check work on blog, ensure all up to date and
set detentions for missing work
 Read
• read the opening page of The Bourne Supremacy
script.

• In pairs draw a story board and shot list for this scene.
• You MUST pay great attention to the details and try
and decide what shot is intended by each shot
description in the action.

• To accompany each drawing give a description of

what we should see using appropriate media
terminology.
1 EXT. MERCEDES WINDSHIELD -- DUSK 1

It's raining... Light strobes across the wet glass at a rhythmic pace...
Suddenly -- through the window a face -- JASON BOURNE -- riding in the backseat -- his gaze fixed.

A1 INT. MERCEDES -- NIGHT A1

On his knee -- a syringe and a gun -- The eyes of the driver, JARDA, watching --
BOURNE'S POV -- the passenger -- back of his HEAD -- cell phone rings -- the HEAD turns -- it's CONKLIN --
BOURNE returns his stare... CUT TO --

2 INT. COTTAGE BEDROOM -- NIGHT 2

BOURNE'S EYES OPEN! -- panicked -- gasping -- trying to stay quiet -- MARIE sleeps.

A2 INT. COTTAGE LIVING AREA/BATHROOM -- NIGHT A2

BOURNE moving for the medicine cabinet. Digs through the medicine cabinet. Downs something specific.

3 INT./EXT. COTTAGE LIVING ROOM/VERANDA -- NIGHT 3

One minute later. BOURNE moves out onto the veranda. MARIE pads in. Watching him for a moment. Concerned.
Clearly it's not the first time this has happened. They both look different than last we saw them; his hair is longer. She's
a blonde. Hippie travellers. Their cottage is humble but sweet. The bedroom opens to a beach and a town just down the
hill. CLUB MUSIC from some all night rave wafting in from the far distance.
Make drawings bold
but simple

Make description
clear and use media
language
 Creating
Your own script
 Writing
• On the blogs you will find some examples of work generated by students in the
class.

• Read and comment on what they have written bearing in mind the brief for this
exercise.

• Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character

opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another
character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

• This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-
degree rule

• Do the scripts offer the chance to complete this exercise successfully?

• What might they need to do to them to improve them?

 Writing

• 10 minutes writing task.

• Using the format you have seen in the Bourne
screenplay, write a short (1 page) script which
fits the brief.
 Storyboard
Now turn that
script into a
storyboard with
description of
shots using
media
terminology.
 Homework

• Complete scene and

storyboard

• Watch two more opening

scenes from movies and
analyse using Media
Language

• Complete any unfinished

work on blog