Professor Monologue Shot List

Shot 1
Camera Angle: Eye level
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To introduce Professor to his audience
Dialogue: “I’m the Professor me. I’m not really a Professor, I’m just a nosy bastard who
wants to try everything.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 12 seconds
Rules of Composition: Depth of Field that is clear to show audience the location of Road,
and Rule of Thirds with Professor on the left side for the audience to be focused on and
interested in his appearance.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: This shot is illuminated with colour and has the setting of an empty street to
create an atmosphere similar to Road. The Professor moves into the shot from one side and
directly speaks to the camera directly with happy facial expressions and wearing glasses to
present himself as a friendly and intriguing character to his audience.

Shot 2
Camera Angle: Eye level
Camera Movement: Pans right for Professor to point down the street when he says “Road”
Shot Intention: To guide the audience visually at what he has been studying: Road
Dialogue: “When I got made redundant I decided to do an anthropological study of “Road”
and go down in history.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 10 seconds before following on to next shot.
Rules of Composition: Leading Lines used in pavements down Road can lead audience in the
direction of the road, and Depth of Field is slightly blurred to show audience that the road
has a long distance.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: This shot may follow on from the previous shot. Professor is positioned near
the Right edge of the shot using the Rule of Thirds and room to include his pointing arm and
hand in shot in order to direct audience to one end of Road.

Shot 3
Camera Angle: Eye level
Camera Movement: Pans left for Professor to point at his house at the end of Road
Shot Intention: To show the audience where the Professor lives in Road
Dialogue: “So I moved in the end house here. But all I did...”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 9 seconds
Rules of Composition: Clear Depth of Field to show his house positioned in Road and Rule of
Thirds is used to keep Professor at the edge of the Left side and focus the audience of the
other side where the house is.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: Colour is very distinct to make the houses different and Professor changes
Facial Expressions from happy to miserable when he begins talking about his family before
the next shot.

Shot 4
Camera Angle: Shoulder Level
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To make the Professor appear lonely as he reveals to his audience that he
had lost his wife and family.
Dialogue: “...was go down. I lost me wife, me family,"
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 5 seconds
Rules of Composition: Blurred focus in Depth of Field to support emotion of sadness, Rule of
Thirds used with Professor standing in Right line of focus to give audience space, and
Framing of single to show loneliness as Professor reveals that he had a wife and family.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: Facial expressions are miserable as he feels partly feels responsible for
losing them, and he looks away from the camera in thought as he remembers his past.

Shot 5
Camera Angle: Low Angle
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To tell the audience with humour that he lost half of stomach by viewing it
at a closer angle.
Dialogue: “half me stomach,”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 4 seconds
Rules of Composition: The Low Angle can allow the audience to view the Professor’s
stomach more closely while at the same time they can see his head while he is talking.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: This close shot can give more detail of the Professor’s costume and hands,
giving some focus on his unwashed clothes and dirty fingers.

Shot 6
Camera Angle: Medium Shot
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To show the audience that he carries a tape recorder and cardboard box.
Dialogue: “everything. Now all I’ve got left is this tape, and this box full of all me records,”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 8 seconds
Rules of Composition: Pavements and windows from the road have Leading Lines that bring
the audience’s focus to the tape recorder and cardboard box, which can also be supported
by clear Depth of Field, and the Camera Angle can clearly show the Professor’s appearance
and posture to his audience.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: The Medium Shot gives a clear impression of my character’s appearance.
Shot 7
Camera Angle: Medium Hip Shot from Left
Camera Movement: Static until the word “book” is spoken when camera tilts up for next
shot.
Shot Intention: To show the Professor’s cardboard box in more detail regarding how long he
has used it.
Dialogue: “all I could write really. Long agos I gived up the idea of making a book,”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 7 seconds
Rules of Composition: Framing as a single shot can show that there is no one else in the
street and Professor’s hand can be in line with the Rule of Thirds to keep the audience’s
attention on the cardboard box.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: How the Professor holds the box shows how careful he handles it and
details like rips and smudges can present how much he had used it for his studies.

Shot 8
Camera Angle: Medium Low Angle from Left
Camera Movement: Tilts up to film Professor’s head following previous shot
Shot Intention: To change the audience’s attention back to the Professor.
Dialogue: “and instead, now I...”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 3 seconds
Rules of Composition: Depth of Field is sightly blurred to keep the audience’s attention on
the Professor and notice that he is thinking about his past from his facial expressions, and
the Camera Angle can bring the focus to the Professor’s face and show from his facial
expressions that he is thinking internally about his past.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: The Professor thinks about deciding not to write a book before talking about
what he does in the present and looking at the camera in the next shot.

Shot 9
Camera Angle: Shoulder Level
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To make Professor interactive with audience by offering his hand to the
camera for either a pint or chips.
Dialogue: “just give em out to people for the price of a pint or chips.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 8 seconds
Rules of Composition: Leading Lines from the pavement can guide the audience to the
Professor’s hand, and the clear focus for the Depth of Field can make the shot more
interactive for the audience.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: How he interacts with the camera and his audience could show how he has
communicated with other people in his past explorations and interviews.

Shot 10
Camera Angle: Hip Level Medium Shot
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To focus the audience on his cardboard box and interest them with what he
is taking out of it.
Dialogue: None
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 6 seconds
Rules of Composition: Rule of Thirds is used to draw audience’s attention to cardboard box.
Framing is a clear single to show that the Professor is alone in the street.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: Background noise of wind can support loneliness along with the desolate
background.

Shot 11
Camera Angle: Shoulder Level from Right
Camera Movement: Slow Arc
Shot Intention: To interest the Professor’s audience with one of his stories.
Dialogue: “Social Life in Road: Wood Street Drinking Club. An episode that occurred in winter
of Our Lord nineteen eighty-two.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 14 seconds
Rules of Composition: The Camera Angle is positioned from one side to show both the
Professor and his sheet of paper, the Rule of Thirds can position these points of focus more
effectively, and the Depth of Field is blurred to focus the audience on the Professor and to
feel a sense of wearing glasses.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: Paper can be seen in detail as crumpled, creased and old to present it as an
old record from several years.

Shot 12
Camera Angle: Full Shot
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To get the audience more involved in the Professor’s story as he is telling it
and give them one of his experiences more visually.
Dialogue: “I went in.”
Location: Pub/Club
Time Zone: 4 seconds
Rules of Composition: Rule of Thirds positions Professor in the door to give the audience a
layout of the different setting.
Lighting: Lamps in room/Motivated
Characteristics: Setting changes to the club door in order to introduce audience to a visual
experience of one of his adventures. Colour is monochromatic to set the scene in the past.
No background noise can also begin building tension.

Shot 13
Camera Angle: High Angle
Camera Movement: Trucking (Moving Sideways)
Shot Intention: To present the Professor’s dialogue more visually as he recalls his adventure
in Wood Street.
Dialogue: “A woman was crapping behind the piano.”
Location: Pub/Club
Time Zone: 5 seconds
Rules of Composition: The High Angle is low for the piano to block the woman for the
audience to use their imagination and be shocked by the dialogue being portrayed visually.
Lighting: Lights in the room/Motivated
Characteristics: An old or new piano is used to cover the woman apart from her head, and
monochromatic is used along with slow camera movements to create the sense of a black-
and-white 3D photo to interest the audience from the Professor’s perspective.

Shot 14
Camera Angle: Medium Full Shot
Camera Movement: Trucking
Shot Intention: To present the Professor’s dialogue more visually as he recalls his adventure
in Wood Street.
Dialogue: “Two men were fighting over a pie.”
Location: Pub/Club
Time Zone: 5 seconds
Rules of Composition: For Framing, the two men are framed in a Two Shot and the Camera
Angle can be supported by the table to present how both men are in the shot.
Lighting: Lights in the Room/Motivated
Characteristics: The action is frozen to make it easier for the audience to understand that
the subject is a fight and monochromatic is used along with slow camera movements to
create the sense of a black-and-white 3D photo to interest the audience from the
Professor’s perspective.

Shot 15
Camera Angle: Full Shot
Camera Movement: Trucking
Shot Intention: To present the Professor’s dialogue more visually as he recalls his adventure
in Wood Street.
Dialogue: “A row of old prostitutes were sitting there, still made up as in wars years. Price
tags on the soles of their shoes”
Location: Pub/Club
Time Zone: 10 seconds
Rules of Composition: Framing is a Three Shot, the Full Shot allows the prostitutes to be
seen more clearly, and Leading Lines from details in the room such as windowsills and the
bench they are sitting on can direct the audience to all three of them as the main subject in
this shot.
Lighting: Lights in the Room/Motivated
Characteristics: The prostitutes sit in a row at a corner of the room wearing poor clothes,
and monochromatic is used along with slow camera movements to create the sense of a
black-and-white 3D photo to interest the audience from the Professor’s perspective.

Shot 16
Camera Angle: Knee Level with a Low Tilt
Camera Movement: Trucking
Shot Intention: To show the prostitutes price tags in more detail.
Dialogue: “which they kick up at you as they walk by. I chose the three pound thirty-two one
and bent her over the billiard table in the back room.”
Location: Pub/Club
Time Zone: 11 seconds
Rules of Composition: The legs of the prostitutes work as leading lines for the price tags, and
the Camera Angle can focus more on the shoes and price tags in more detail than from a
Ground Shot.
Lighting: Lights in the Room/Motivated
Characteristics: The shoes and price tags of the prostitutes can follow from the previous
shot to give more detail as part of a montage and monochromatic is used with along slow
camera movements to create the sense of a black-and-white 3D photo to interest the
audience from the Professor’s perspective.

Shot 17
Camera Angle: Close Up from Left Side
Camera Movement: Slow Arc
Shot Intention: To make the Professor answer questions that the audience may have more
visually.
Dialogue: “Nobody saw. I could tell she didn’t like it so I spoke to her afterwards.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 8 seconds
Rules of Composition: Shallow focus in Depth of Field to focus on the Professor as he is
talking, and the Close Up can show the audience the Professor’s facial expressions in detail
when he talks about having sex with a prostitute.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: The change back to normal colour and the street can give the audience a
break from the story and focus on his face when remembering his experience and the
camera moving in a slow arc can keep the story going and interest the audience.

Shot 18
Camera Angle: Eye Level
Camera Movement: Static
Shot Intention: To see the audience through the perspective of the Professor while having a
conversation with the prostitute.
Dialogue: “She said she had to do it to keep her four kids decent. I told her that three
pounds thirty-two wasn’t much,”
Location: Pub/Club Billiard Room
Time Zone: 10 seconds
Rules of Composition: Both the Camera Angle and Framing of a Single Shot of the prostitute
can give the audience the perspective of the Professor as he was having his conversation
with her, and Depth of Field is clear to give a layout of the room where they had talked in.
Lighting: Lights in the Room/Motivated
Characteristics: The prostitute is speaking at the camera in slow-motion, but there is no
sound, which could make it difficult for the audience to focus on the Professor’s dialogue.
The lighting in the billiard room may be limited to give an eerie feeling and monochromatic
is used to create the sense of a black-and-white 3D photo to interest the audience from the
Professor’s perspective.
Shot 19
Camera Angle: Shoulder Level
Camera Movement: Slow Arc
Shot Intention: To finish his story at Wood Street by going back to Professor reading from
his adventure using his paper.
Dialogue: “She said she wasn’t much and come to that neither was I. That’s where we left
it.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 9 seconds
Rules of Composition: Depth of Field has some focus to show that the Professor’s story is
coming to an end, the Rule of Thirds can be used to put the Professor’s body and head in
one line of focus and his record of Wood Street in another, and the Shoulder Level Shot can
bring the audience back to the shot when he began his storytelling.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: The colour changes back to normal and the Professor occasionally looks
between his record and at his audience while finishing up his story. When he finishes
speaking, he starts putting the paper away in his box during the transition to the final shot.

Shot 20
Camera Angle: Eye Level
Camera Movement: Pull Out away from Professor
Shot Intention: To end the monologue with a direct and provoking message about his
lifestyle in Road.
Dialogue: “See how easy you can slip when you’s a scientist in the slums.”
Location: Street/road
Time Zone: 13 seconds
Rules of Composition: Depth of Field is clear to bring the audience back to reality after
learning about one of his adventures, the Leading Lines from the pavements in Road can
bring the audience’s focus to the Professor, and the Camera Angle is useful for the Professor
to look at and speak directly to his audience as he sums up his story at the end of the
monologue.
Lighting: Natural
Characteristics: The camera starts moving away from the Professor after he puts his record
in his box, which can make the audience feel that they have been told his whole story and
that he may be about to ask someone else. The Professor could begin to be less interesting
to his audience by staring off into the distance, looking at his tape recorder or looking
around the street for other people as the screen fades to black.