The Terminator (1984)

This poster is one of the more obvious ones in terms of its target audience. The main image shown on this poster is that of a leather-clad Arnie wearing wrap-around shades and brandishing a Colt .45 longslide with a laser sight. The background of the poster is black with red laser looking lines which indicate that the film will be futuristic, along with the title of the film 'The Terminator' in a futuristic font.

The Further Altered Story

The scene starts off with an important man in car with (two?) bodyguards (or cronies), there are soldiers lying in wait. As the car approaches, they take out the tires (or something else to get the car to stop), the car stops and two of the guards get out and retern fire. They get riddled with lead. One of the guys gets out to fight and Ted grabs a handgun from the glovebox and starts shooting. Eventually everyone in the car is dead apart from Ted. He runs out of ammo, so the soldiers move in and waste anyone still alive. One of the bad guys is on the ground, shot but still reaching for a gun, but is swiftly killed in cold blood by a soldier as he runs past. Ted gets dragged out and shot in the face. 2-4 Mercs vs. 2-3 Important baddies. Expendables-style intro scene. The segment is filmed from the point of veiw of the soldiers, they are the good guys even though they have just killed about three people in cold blood. We have changed to this plot rather than have a group of high end mercs taking out a drunk guy, that seemed a little excessive. We also introduced more bad guys, so as to even out the fight and also mean that we can put a lot more action into our thriller, with the old plot we wouldn't really be able to use the guns too much, which would be boring. It also makes a lot more sense, for example, why would the important man be drunk and if he was drunk, why wouldn't the mercinaries just wait untill he crashed his car by himself and kill him then and make it look like an accident (assuming he's not already dead).

Shot By Shot Breakdown

1. Close up of Elite group 's weapons and equipment
2. Closeup of Yuri's facial expression, symbolising his power and status within the group
3. low angle shot with a static camera of the car approaching then passing by
4. medium shot of Ted driving the car, introducing who the driver is
5. high angle shot of him trying to change gears, and him swaying - signifying he is drunk
6. longshot of the sniper setting up to make his shot on the tyre of the car
7. closeup of the shooter looking determined and aggressive
8. Close up of the shooter in front of him preparing for the aim of his shot
9. scope shot, we can see where the sniper is aiming at (POV), at Ted, then his aim drifts off to the tyre of the car
10. Close up of the sniper actually firing at the tyre and held at this shot for longer, for the viewer to hear the tyre puncture and not see it to avoid complications in post editing
11. Medium interior shot of Ted swerving
12. close up on Teds facial expression looking worried, disorientated and puzzled
13. POV with a slow shutter speed of Ted indicating he's drunk used until he gets out of the car
14. In the same shot he stumbles and falls
15. Half way through his fall an over the shoulder shot of an elitist is used to see the remainder of Ted's fall to the ground
16. OTS shot of Yuri looking at Ted, and then we see Yuri turn round and look past the camera, towards his group of elitists to tell them to move in
17. tracking shots of the group running towards Ted
18. closeups of each man and their facial expressions indicating who they are and their order of importance and them all communicating to each other
19. cuts to Ted, his drunk and blurred vision is what we see on the screen through the POV of Ted, there is a clear contrast between the shots we see of the elitist group running and Ted being vulnerable
20. cuts to a black screen, with muffled sound then the sound becomes clearer and you can distinguish the sound of footsteps coming closer and closer
21. camera shot opens up looking at the sky, then we see Yuri's face and he points a gold Desert Eagle in the face of Ted
22. as he pulls the trigger the screen cuts instantly to black then we hear the sound of the gun shot and the name "YURI" slams onto the screen with a metallic sound
23. for the dot on the "I" there will be a gun shot and the dot will be like a hole made from a bullet with a metal sound.

More Story

At first we wanted to have a car travelling down a dark road, alone, with children in the back. A man was going to appear and shoot them. We rethought our idea and realised that we probably would not be able to encorporate this into an effective thriller sequence. We then decided to change our idea but still keeping the car idea that we originally wanted.

We have now decided to change our idea completely. We are going to have a car (Black Range Rover) driven by Ted, driving down the road, we will be showing closeup cross cutting between Ted, the car, and a group of elitists army soldiers from Russia, hiding down the road, waiting for Ted.

The main reason for changing our idea was that we thought we could more successfully put together an action scene rather than trying to film in the dark and successfully build up suspense in a way in which we had not really thought of. So by doing this new idea, we have now decided to name the thriller "YURI" because the film will be based upon the leader of the army group, who is called Yuri, and it will be about how they, being mercenaries, go around murdering anyone they are told to.

For our main character Yuri, we are going to use one of the A2 students who we believe will be a very effective actor for playing the role of a Russian leader.

 

Props N' Stuff

Firstly, we have decided to use a black Range Rover for our car. We wanted to have a car which symbolised the driver's class, upper class - successful businessman type of man, who is probably an important figure, the reason for him being murdered.

Secondly, for our costumes, we are going to dress Ted, the driver, in suit but with his jacket off and his tie off and top button undone, this is becuase we want him to look quite rugged and drunk, which he is. For the soldiers, we will try and get some Russian army-type uniforms for them to wear, and for Yuri, the leader, we want him to be wearing a different hat, to symbolise his importance in the group and so we can distinguish which person he is.

For the weapons used by the soldiers, we will use airsoft guns of the same type, to show how the members of the group are equal, however Yuri will have a large pistol, showing his importance, and signifying how he is different from the others in the group.

Basic Outline

1. starts off with an elite group of army soldiers
2. camera showing their weapons - closeups, then showing there rugged faces and emotions
3. closeup of fake blood on knives of the men and on their faces
4. then a black range rover approaches from the distance driven by Ted
5. as the range rover approaches, the elite gorup prepares for action
6. closeup on a sniper scope which is aimed at Ted, then leads off to the tyres of the range rover and fires
7. Ted swerves the car off the road and skids to a holt
8. Ted gets out of the car, confused and very drunk
9. POV shot of Ted showing his vision very blurry and distort
10. whilst this is going on cross cutting between the elists faces and movements, and Ted
11. MOA when Ted drops his bottle of Whiskey, whilst he goes to pick it up, the elitists take their moment to pounce
12. the elitists professionally move in with lots of fast paced cutting showing the leader communicating with the other soldiers
13. then Ted is surrounded as he stumbles back up onto his feet
14. one of the Russian soldiers hits Ted to the floor with the butt of his rifle
15. the elítísts or leader then stands over Ted, very high angle shot the the man standing over him, looks intimidating
16. he pulls out a Desert Eagle, the camera focuses on it
17. the leader quotes, "я Юрия, иметь хороший сон" (I amYuri, have a good sleep).
18. then screen blanks as we hear a gun shot and the title "YURI" slams onto the screen