PLANNING INDIVIDUAL STORYBOARD - Miss Miller

PLANNING INDIVIDUAL STORYBOARD

After discussing our final ideas and planning everything up to filming, planning my own individual story board has helped me to express my onw ideas for our group narrative. Although me and my group have come up with a basis to our narrative, we have each created our own individual narrative and when completed will bring them all together and have a group discussion about what small things we think work well and whaat dont.

For my individual story boards i created 20 frames on 4 storyboards. Each story board itself had 4 frames which included picture space and all of the editing, iconography, lighting and sound skills i would use. For each frame i drew a picture which represented what would be shown in that scene, for e.g. in my first frame i drew a plain black screen. The reason for this is because the voice recording of the news will be shown and a black screen will slowly be opened up to a long shot of the living room of the house. The black screen will slowly fade with the voice recording of the BBC news fading too, the low-key lighting will slowly disapear and the screen will be bright introducing both of the main characters. Whilst this is taking place, the credits will be on the screen introducing the actors, director, music etc.

 In my third frame a black figure will pace past the window in flickers, bringing tension to the screen. In this scene the lighting will be flickering to low-key as the pace of the opening sequence will be quite fast not giving anything away to the audience. I took inspiration from past media clips which me and my group have analysed and taken notes from, this helped us to explore what works well in an opening sequence and why. We found the flickering of the screen worked well as the pace was fast and kept the audience on the edge of their seats wanting to see more than the opening sequence.

In my third story board, i chose to use a long shot. This long shot represents and shows a picture of the two main characters behind, the lighting that i have planned to use is low-key lighting with shadow features on the ground. There will be two actors and the editing will mean the audience see them flicker down the path quickly, almost in a blink of a second. This will keep up the pace of the opening and keep the audience interested. The same movement will be used when the antagonist passes the window, the editing will be fast with black flickers on the screen. Both of these uses will be at different points in the short opening and mean the antagonists face and body features will not be shown, thjs will leave a mystery as it is very hard for the audience to get a good look at the antagonist.

I hope that the audience will be kept in suspense from my opening sequence. I hope this because of the cliff hanger ending where the audience are left wondering what has happened to the girls, if they are in danger, and what will happen to them next. Not only this, but I hope that the audience will also be shocked and surprised at some scenes, also feeling sympathetic to the characters. This could possibly be from the scene were they see the young boy tied up to the tree. 

I think that my own storyboard was well thought out and that it had clear thriller conventions. It also has good camera techniques that are typical of the thriller genre. It has an engaging narrative which will keep the audience on the edge of their seats for the whole sequence. It will also create the three thriller conventions: Shock, Suspense and surprise.

Each of my frames are in much detail and all show to the audience what I am going to do and use. From these individual story boards we created a group story board, this meant discussing ideas.

Our group story board is 24 frames, which is 5 story board pages. We found that planning this in detail helped us look at intrecate details we need to use and make sure we include.

This is an example of a blank story board that we used, this shows the space for pictures as well as writing. We had to include the length of the scene and what frame number is was, this helped me and my group stay organised.