Shot by shot list

Shot by shot list

• The thriller will start with an establishing shot showing the where he is which will be at his country house and then the title sequence will begin.
• In the background of the title sequence we will have type writer style font appearing on screen which will show the date and a speech that the president has made on Cuba will also be in the background.
• Security guards prepare for the arrival of the president and alert the other people in the room.
• The camera cuts to the president walking down the corridor with two security guards behind him.
• The president will enter with a low angle shot to show his dominance and the security guards will also re-emphasize that.
• The president will be greeted by the chief of staff of the United States army and the attorney general.
• The president will then be ushered over to his desk where he will sit down.
• The attorney general and the chief of staff of the United States army will sit directly behind him.
• We see a front on medium wide shot of the three people sitting down.
• We will then see a close of a general which will outline how nervous he is.
• All of this will have to happen at a fast pace to show that they can’t let this strike hit Cuba.
• There will then be a tracking shot of a security guard bringing over a code installer which will stop the nuclear attack on Cuba.
• There will be a close up (still a tracking shot) of his hands to illustrate to the audience what he is carrying.
• The AG will then hand the president the type writer. 
• It will show a shot reverse shot of the president to the AG as JFK and RK who was the attorney general in Kennedy presidency were brothers.
• The shot reverse shot will show the severity of the situation from the looks on their face.
• The president will then type in the code which will be in slow motion.  
• There will also be extremely quick jump cuts of the president to the other people in the room to show the looks on their faces and their angst.
• There will then be another medium wide shot of all three followed by a close up of the president as he about to type in the fifth number of the code to call of the attack.
• Just as he is about to do this the president will get shot.
• There will be a close up shot of the president getting shot and an emphasized diegetic sound put into it to show him getting shot.
• There will then be close up of the main people in the room through quick jump cuts   to show the reactions of the people in the room.
• The security guards will be shown in a POV of the president running over in slow motion to amplify that he is dying.
• They will then show a medium wide shot of the AG and the chief of staff taking the position of the president’s seat assuming the power of the nation and will then guess the rest of the code. 
• They will do extremely quick jump cuts to show the two people in the room typing in the rest of the code.
• The thriller will end with a shot reverse shot of the general and then a panning shot of the security guards all staring at the code tipper to show the severity of the situation. 
• The thriller will then end with the camera fading out and it will be left on a cliff hanger.