Group Storyboard

Group Storyboard

After we each planned our own individual story boards, we have incorproated our decisions within each of our individual storyboards together as a group to create a final, group story board of 20 frames. Our group story board helps the group to create a final idea and make a final desicion on which techniques, editing styles and iconography we will be using. By incorporating each others individual ideas from our own storyboards this enabled the final storyboard process to be much quicker and easier. 

Within this storyboard we have included shots of a black screen and a living room. This scene begins with a black screen which has a news report over the top of the scene about missing children in the area. This helps to build and create tension as it creates a sense of foreboding for the rest of the scene as it makes the audience wonder what is going to happen next. The black screen then fades out into the scene of the living room which helps to set the scene of a family room were there is no sense of danger. This immediately changes as the storyboards illustrates that a dark figure walks past the window and ruins this danger free feel as the audience automatically assume that the dark figure would put the children in danger, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats and keep them wanting to watch on to find out what is going to happen.

Within this storyboard that myself and my group have created it begins with a close up of the empty window. This is after the dark figure has disappeared. This makes the audience wonder where the dark figure has disappeared to and wonder if he is on the way to get his next victim, creating suspense and tension. The scene them moves on to the two girls walking down the road together. This also shows that the camera is being handheld by another person which is portrayed to the audience that it is the antagonist. This creates a sense of foreboding for the audience as it makes them think that the antagonist is following them around and can put them in possible threat and danger. This makes the audience empathise for the characters as they could not help but put themselves in this situation and wonder what they would then be feeling like. The storyboard leads on to show the flashback scene of the antagonist burning pictures of his victims and future victims on the wall. This creates suspense and tension for the audience as the un burned pictures of victims demonstrate to the audience that they are the next possible victims, making the audience want to continue to watch on.

We then created the third section of our story board. This was also another 4 different scenes. This storyboard begins with the two girls walking down the road again, this is because it has gone back to the scene to show that this is the current day after the flash back has already occurred. To the audience this could be seen as reliterating the scene to portray to the audience this is a significant event  of when the girls are entering the forest to suggest something bad is going to happen when they do. The storyboard then goes on to show the flashback scene again of the antagonist looking at pictures of the victims and then burning them. This automatically creates a sense of enigma to the audience as they wonder what the antagonist is doing and why. The audience will also empathise for the victims as it is unknown if they are innocent or not. 

The fourth storyboard we then created as a group began with the two girls in the forest wondering around, which immediately creates a sense of foreboding as two vulnerable, young girls are in the middle of an isolated setting without any escape or anybody near by to there them if they are in danger. The next scene flash  to the scene of the antagonist lighting the pictures of his victims. The purpose of this scene is to show to the audience that he is not going to stop untill he is finished with all of his victims, creating suspense and tension for the audience. 

We then went on to create our fifth storyboard for our opening thriller sequence. This storyboard begins with a scene of a shadow of the antagonist on the forest floor. This creates enigma for the audience as it is unknown whos shadow is reflected onto the floor, and why they are in the forest, and if the protagonists safety is jeoprodized. This scene fades as a raged transition flashes up a scene with just a close up of the masked, unidentified antagonist. This is to create a shock for the audience as they were most likely not expecting this to happen and has now kept them intrested. The scene swiftly fades out and into the montage scene. This is where lots of clips are edited together quickly, confusing the audience as they do not know what is going on, as they are waiting for the scene to end to see if something bad is going to happen at the end of it. The final scene on our storyboard is then a high angled shot of the two protagonists standing looking directly up at the camera seeming possessed. This creates enigma for the audience as they wonder what has happened to the girls in the short while they were not on the scene, this would encourage the audience to want to watch on further to find out the truth behin what is within the forest and what has happened.

Overall, I think that our storyboard works well as the scenes flow well after eachother. There is a range of different camera techniques throughout the opening sequence, including a long shot, point of view shot and a high angled shot so it is not one continuous mid shot scene. At first we did not include a close up shot, but it was Ella's idea to include one of the masked antagonist to show how scary and mysterious it looks to create suspense and enigma for the audience. We also included a close up shot of the victims and their eyes. This is conventional to the thriller genre as you can see the worried expression on the protagonists faces and how scared they are in this situation. The audience will begin to empathise for the characters as the target audience is of a similar age and cant help but imagine themselves in this situation. Our orignal group storyboard also did not include any flash backs to the scene were the antagonist is burning and circling pictures of his victims once he had endangered them and hurt them. The point of this was to cause confusion, worry and create a sense of enigma for the audience as this would make them wonder what is going on, and why the antagonist would want to hurt the vulnerbale characters.