STORYBOARD ANALYSIS

Aside from our films indent, which is not included in our storyboard, we opted to use an establishing shot as the first shot for our opening sequence. We did this, so that the audience will be able to get a flavour of where exactly our opening scene is set. By showing the protagonist’s house to the audience, we aim to perceive a somewhat residential effect. Not only, will this allow the audience to become familiar with the location in which our moving image is set, but also, allows them to think about what the chosen genre could be, helping to set the mood further in the same way a child opens a book and is curious as to where the setting of the book maybe. Subsequently, I feel that this would back up Todorov’s narrative theory of there being an equilibrium (clear opening) in all films and then lead to a disruption of said equilibrium.

The action on both the first and second page of the blog we want to use as a way to set the scene for our production. Although we believe that this part of the opening is not essential to the flow and storyline of are production. We think it make our piece better and look more realistic. For this reason we believe that if we go over our allotted time this is the part of our piece we will most likely take out or trim down to fit our piece.

As we progress into the middle section of our moving image, we see a selection of shots before the ending of our opening that involves the antagonist and protagonist walking. Typically we have used low angle shots, to help emphasise the antagonist’s dominance and high angle shots to show the protagonists vulnerability. These shots range between 1 and 3 seconds long because we don’t want our shots to be too long, as we wish to create a dramatic irony throughout this section. As well as using high and low angle shots, we also wish to use a series of extreme close ups of the protagonist, so that the audience could see their facial expression. These typically ranged between 1-2 seconds long, and normally focused on the protagonists eyes, from when they were looking behind to see if she was being followed. We also included some tracking shots and POV shots from both the protagonist and antagonists perspective. The sorts of tracking shots we aim to include in our production piece are where the camera itself is moving forwards in correlation to our actors walking. We wanted to include tracking shots in our piece as a way to build the intensity as well as to try and reveal more of a scene. While also letting the audience see things from the characters point of view.

Towards the ending of our moving image, we wish to include an additional high angle shot. However unlike our previous shots, we wish for this one to represent a somewhat of a ‘CCTV’ shot. This is so that it creates another different perspective for our audience to see what’s going on screen and subsequently, making it more interesting and pleasing to the eye. Broadly speaking, our shots for the ending will be made up of close ups and long shots which can be seen as quite contrasting. However, this could represent the protagonist and antagonist, as they are known for being binary opposites in our film. Also, we wish to include an Arc shot from when the antagonist goes to pick up the brick. An Arc shot is where the subject is circled by the camera. Much like the previous shots, we wanted to include an Arc shot so that it produces some variety in our film, opposed to the same shots being used every time, which not only gets respective and predictable, but also is quite boring to film, which may be reflected in our moving image.

In terms of editing, most of our shots will be a ‘cut’. This is because we feel it is an effective, but easy way of keeping continuity with in our production piece. We also used it because we believe that it made are piece look the cleanest and most professional. However, our second to last shot will be a jump cut. This is because the intention is, is to scare our audience and we feel, a jump cut is best suited to that. Another reason is because we believe if it scares them it makes it more memorable which is what we want for our protagonist’s death.