Foundation Production - Group 12: TH Technical Analysis - 'The Vampire Diaries'- Pilot, 2009

*Duration*	*Camera Shot*	*Mise-en-scene*	*Sound*
13 seconds	Long shot, tracking shot, wide frame.	Fog, trees, forest, iconography of horror on a set location.	Narration, ambience up to a crescendo.
2 seconds	Black screen.	None.	Music; up-beat.
3 seconds	Long shot, high angle, static camera movement.	Car enters top left of shot and exits bottom right, night time.	Music; up-beat, diegetic car noise.
4 seconds	Panning shot at eye level.	Car in foreground driving quite fast.	Music; up-beat, diegetic car noise, sound bridge- dialogue.
5 seconds	Mid shot, two shot, low angle; 45 degrees.	Two figures in shot, shallow focus.	Conversation, diegetic background noise.
2 seconds	Shot reverse shot.	Shallow focus on other person.	Conversation, diegetic.
5 seconds	Shot reverse shot (same as two shots back).	Two figures in shot, shallow focus.	Conversation, diegetic.
2 seconds	Big close up.	Male’s face to show his comment and role in the narrative.	Voice, diegetic.
3 seconds	Long shot, low angle.	Car in distance, fog and forest and road.	Car noise, music; extra-diegetic.
3 seconds	Medium close up.	Two characters in car.	Conversation, diegetic.
1 second	Close up.	Girl screams, viewed from side of her face.	Scream of girl and music in background.
1 second	POV shot from car dashboard to figure in the road.	Figure in centre of the road; centre of shot for focal point.	Tyre screeches.
1 second	Close up of face of man.	Side of man’s face, as he reacts to the figure in the road.	Tyre screeches- extra diegetic.
1 second	POV shot back to car now, same as two shots back.	Figure in road as car hits person and windscreen shatters.	Tyre screeches and figure hitting the glass.
2 seconds	Long shot of the car again from the side, camera in forest.	Figure flying over the car after being hit.	More tyre screeches.
2 seconds	Long shot of car from the front this time, static shot from low angle.	Car in foreground and centre of shot as it loses control after being hit.	Tyre screeches, music has ceased.
2 seconds	Shot reverse shot; same as before but from behind the car to give a different perspective on the situation.	Car in foreground and centre of shot as it loses control after being hit.	Tyre screeches, music has ceased.
6 seconds	Vertical pan down from above the car down to below the eye level of the man.	Shot showing everything from figure lying on floor to car and below man to show his power in what’s just happened.	No sound other than background ambience to build tension.
10 seconds	Panning backwards away from man as he walks towards the lying figure, low angle, long shot.	Man as focal point with car in the first third in background. Figure and man centred exactly in shot and road.	Ambience and man hopes the figure is still alive under his breath; severity of situation.
1 second	Close up.	Man’s hand identify’s figure’s hand and a ring is in focus.	Ambience.
1 second	Medium close up.	Man’s face is only thing in shot, as he looks afraid.	Heavy breathing and ambience.
1 second	Medium close up, over-the-shoulder shot.	Composition consists of man over the figure, but figure suddenly grips the man’s throat.	Sudden sound effects of gripping.
1 second	Figure is at medium-long shot with man as they are both centred in shot.	Figure jumps up with hand on the man’s throat as he gets up at abnormally quick speed.	More SFX as he swooshes upwards.
1 second	Big close up.	Figure’s face is shown for the first time, little of it, but his teeth are vampire-like as he bites into man’s neck.	Crunching noise, diegetic.
2 seconds	Cut to black screen.	None.	None.
2 seconds	Static shot of woman, long shot.	Point of view behind woman as she looks down road; perspective.	Ambience returns.
1 second	Shot reverse shot.	Same as above but man’s body falls onto car bonnet behind woman.	Smash of body falling onto bonnet of car; diegetic.
2 seconds	Close up.	Gore shot of man’s neck as it has been bitten into and he is clearly dead.	Extra-diegetic scream from woman.
2 seconds	Medium close up.	Woman shown screaming from behind the profile of dead man.	Diegetic scream from woman.
1 second	Tracking shot, low angle.	Shot following the running footsteps of woman down the road.	Ambience crescendos to music as it intensifies and running sound.
2 seconds	Long shot, tracking shot at high pace, POV shot?	Shot from behind woman as she runs down road, getting closer the further she goes.	Heavy breathing and faster paced music.
4 seconds	Shot reverse shot tracking slower, fade to black.	Woman is closer to camera, centred as she is seemingly taken by an invisible entity.	Music crescendos and screams fade out.