Examples of Pre-production planning in Design & Picture Visualization
Production Design Concept by Veronika Merlin
Costume Design Concept by Caterina Czepek
Visualization / Scenes 1 - 8
Directed by Hermann Aichwalder
MÜLLERS OFFICE II - Next Generation
by Hermann Aichwalder & Thomas Nash
INTRO
black picture, ONLY SOUND: steps going through the office, opening a drawer, unscrewing a bottle - insertion of the production company Credit "Cult Film“
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
1 Extreme Close up
Camera return extremely close from whisky glass in Glastotale,
Whisky is poured
2 Medium / crane drive from above
a record is rotated between two fingers and placed on a turntable with the side to be played
3 Close up / short camera movement
Start button of record player is pressed, tonearm moves to the record
Music begins (Müllers Büro Soundtrack)
4 Medium / camera movement
Whisky glass on the side, Müller takes the glass to drink, tracking shot on overshoulder with blur on wall shelf shoes
5 Medium / camera movement
tracking shot from shoe rack top to bottom, in the middle is a free space where Müller places a new shoe
EXT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
6 Extreme long / crane travel
Crane drive down on road, cars of the Americanos approach and a dull beatpass can be heard
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
7 Medium / camera movement
Camera tracking shot from the vibrating slats of the blinds, backwards to whisky glass in which the whisky is vibrating, bass of car slowly drowning out title music (Müllers Büro Soundtrack)
8 Close up
Record player Tonearm scratches over the record, music from outside takes over the beat
OUT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
9 Medium long / camera movement
Camera tracking shot sideways from the facade to the street where the vehicles stop in front of the camera, the vehicle doors open
10 Medium / crane travel
from bottom to top, quick raising of feet to the person getting out with a machine pistol in his hand, which is loaded
11 Extreme long / Close up / crane travel
from top to bottom with centric rotation
View from above, camera stands - for one breath everything is quiet, the camera turns several times centrically downwards and stops on the side of the bolt of the Americanos Chef's machine gun, the trigger is pulled
12 Close up / Extreme Slow Motion (High speed recording)
machine gun, bullet is fired and comes out of the muzzle, camera follows bullet
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
13 Close up / Extreme Slow Motion (High-speed recording)
Bullet flies through window slats to whisky glass, where the bullet hits and the glass shatters
OUT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
14 Medium long / medium / camera movement
lateral tracking shot on shooting Americanos
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
15 Close Up / Medium
various close up and medium shots step by step in slow motion of impacts of the bullets into the furniture (sofa, lamp, shoes, files, pictures)
OUT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
16 Medium / camera movement
Fire is stopped, the last shell falls to the ground, silence returns
17 Close up
Last case falls to the ground in slow motion
18 Medium long
Just rest, Americanos stand still, in the gun smoke of the guns fired
19 Medium / camera movement
POV by Americanos, tracking shot on Müller's office, window blind falls off the shot window
20 Medium long / camera movement
light tracking shot POV office back on total Americanos getting back into their cars
INT. / CAR AMERICANOS / NIGHT
21 Close up
The pin of a hand grenade is pulled and thrown towards the Müllers Büro
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
22 Close up / Extreme close up
Close to the ground, picture of Larry, women's shoe, as well as other utensils are lying on the ground, hand grenade with the inscription- Fuck you rolls in front of the camera
OUT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
23 Extreme long / Medium long
Explosion at Müller's office, shattering windows
24 Medium long / Extrem long
tracking shot from the tires of the moving cars to a total of cars and road
INT. / OFFICE / NIGHT
25 Medium / Shoulder close / camera movement
after the explosion there are still scraps of paper and smoke flying around in the air, camera slowly moves towards the smoking shoe of Max Müller lying on the ground, the sole of the shoe is slightly bent away and smoking, the big toe is visible, on the sole of the shoe stands Hero
26 Medium / camera movement
POV Max Müller, he sees his smoking shoe and his gaze wanders to the ceiling where a white cloud forms, harp music starts and two female angels appear (Bluebox)
27 Close up
Face Müller, text: "Shit"
28 Medium
the two female angels smile at him, text angels: " So is the life Müller"
29 Close up
Müller's gaze falls on the detail of the two (camera panning)
30 Close up
POV Müller, pan of faces of angels into their neckline
31 Close up
Müller sighs, smiles and closes his eyes, the picture freezes
32 Close up / Medium
the picture is on the front page of a newspaper, easy camera return
Titles and credits begin to run. We see drawn pictures of the actors in comic style, which change into real pictures of moving print strips.