The next step is a test shoot, which is essential to determine whether the idea that we have decided to work from is compelling enough and if it is a realistic target to achieve. For the planning, we spent several hours brainstorming to decide upon a specific variant of our idea. Mike came to help, and he advised us to carry out the following sequence: the couple is preparing to go out. We know this thanks to the movement of their shoes and the dialogue. They start hearing sounds in the distance but they don't pay too much attention. Then, the man goes out of the room to get something (ice for a glass of champagne, for instance), and comes back in a estate of panic, telling his fiancee to quickly hide because they are coming. After the initial confusion, she gets under the bed and he, within the last second, hides inside of the cupboard. The killer enters the scene, just in time to see the cupboard's door bending. He shoots the man, and his face in blood becomes visible for the woman, still hiding under the bed. As the assassin walks out, she lets out a scream and we see the shoes coming back.
In order to represent this idea that has evolved over time, we had to do some doodles establishing the angle that we were most interested in to film from. We wrote the summary again, with the slight changes that had occurred. A Shot List is also very useful to have an orientation of what we are going to search for during the filming of the sequence. We searched for locations. Initially, we thought of the Lodge, as Emma has her bedroom there and we could use both her bed and her cupboard to be more or less realistic. Katie, however, told us to have a back-up idea in case we were not allowed to film in the house, so we went to check in the Studio. We found a spot under the table, and the door which leads to a smaller room could be our potential cupboard.
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