Individual Storyboard - Miss Miller

The purpose of a storyboard is to plan out the each scene and to write what shots and what editing techniques will be used. This is useful because without planning your storyboard you could forget certain shots. Additionally, this it makes your idea easier to show other people if they can picture what is going to happen in each seen as well as it making the filming part of your narrative quicker as you already know how to lay everything out.

Before creating our group storyboard we have created individual ones first, this is so that we can incorporate everyone's individual ideas when we create out group one to make our sequence the best we can. This will help by us to be able to easily make our final group storyboard compared to if we had just made our group storyboard first. This is because we would not of been able to show the rest of the group how we think the sequence should be filmed and so our ideas might not of been clear and then not incorporated. Where as now they can see a clear image of what we think it will look like and so they are able to imagine incorporating our storyboards together. 

In my storyboard i have included what is going to happen in each scene. For example, at the start of my storyboard i have shown how the clown will be getting ready looking into a mirror. He will then pick up a picture of a young girl, which causes a flashback showing him leaving a note in her bag. After this, we then see the girl find the note before walking to where the note tells her to go, we then see through the pictures that the antagonist sneaks up behind the girl and knocks her out. Finally, the storyboard then shows the girl tied up in the corner of a dark room, before it changing to the antagonist with a knife covered in blood and then shows the girl laying there dead.

Each part of the scene has afferent elements involved, for example, when the girl walks down and find pictures of her self we will use a reaction shot. This is to not only show her reaction and emotion on her face but it also creates tension and shock for the audience because they don't know either why her pictures are all around the alley. Furthermore, i will also use low key lighting a lot throughout the sequence but especially towards the end when the girl is tied up in the corner of a dark isolated room. This low key lighting is used to foreshadow that something bad is going to happen to her, which is conventional to the thriller genre as it creates suspense for the audience because they don't know what is going to happen to her or when it is going to happen. I have also planned in my storyboard to use different types of editing. For instance, i have planned to use the kuleshov effect at the end of the sequence when the innocent girl is killed. Although, the audience will know it is the antagonist who has killed her this still creates and enigma because they don't know what has really happened. 

I expect the audience to react in a good way towards my sequence i have planned on my storyboard. This is because i think it includes many conventional thriller aspects, such as a female victim and a masked antagonist. Moreover, it is a easy to follow narrative, yet it is still interesting because of the different conventions and editing styles i have chose to include. 

Inspirations for my storyboard have been taken from various films, which i have analysed in previous post's. One inspiration is the use of the kuleshov effect, i got this from the film orphan when i researched into editing styles. I took this inspiration as i believe it creates suspense and tension for the audience, which is needed to keep the audience interested and engaged in the thriller sequence. Another inspiration was the use of a knife for the antagonists weapon, this was taken from the thriller film scream made in 1996, which i analysed in my research into sound post. I used this inspiration as by using a everyday kitchen item such as a knife for the weapon, the audience can easily relate to it. This causes the audience to feel more sympathy and create a better relationship between the victim and the audience. I also took the inspiration of a masked antagonist, with a hidden identity. This convention was taken from the film scream 4, which was released in 2011. This inspiration creates a sense os suspense as well as an enigma for the audience as they do not know who the antagonist is and so it keeps them engaged, wanting to find out who is behind what is happening and what there motives for there actions are. Furthermore, it also helps is creating a beer relationship between the victim and the audience as neither the audience or the victim know who the antagonist is, this means that the audience can understand how the victim is feeling.

Me and my group will incorporate each others ideas from our individual storyboards when we create our group one, we will do this so that our overall scoreboard is the best that it can be. To do this we will talk about what elements of each others storyboards are good and what parts are bad, and so we will then combine all the good sections together to create our overall sequence. When me and my group combine our individual storyboard ideas to create our final group one i hope that they include my idea of the kuleshov effect at the end of the thriller sequence. This editing technique i hope for us to include as i think it creates suspense and an enigma for the audience, this is vital in keeping the audience engaged and interested and wanting to watch more. Additionally, i hope they take my idea of using a reaction shot when the victim, Jenny, first see's all the photo's of herself in the alley. This is because if the audience can see the characters reaction as soon as this happens then they can connect with how the victims character is feeling. Also, the audience can see the shock on the victims face, which then creates shock for the audience as well as tension as they audience start to question who put the pictures there and what is going to happen next.

Overall i think my individual storyboard is good as it shows a clear outline of what i expect to see within my groups opening sequence and it provides what types of shots, sound and editing techniques i would like to use. However, some issues i have with my storyboard is that the drawings could be better and could include more detail, which as a result would make what I'm trying to show through my storyboard more clear. On the other hand this is not a big issue because i have clear descriptions os what is happening underneath each picture. Another issue is that i have not included how long each slide will last in seconds. However, the reason behind me not doing this is because i was unsure on how long each section should last. But, when me and my group make out final group storyboard we will be ale to discuss how long each slide should last.

In regards to filming my thriller sequence making my individual storyboard is helpful as it means i am more organised before filming with my group and we know what is going to happen though out the sequence. Therefore, we know what to expect and how it should look overall and so when we come to editing our sequence and inputing sound we know what sounds and what editing techniques to use. Also, our storyboard will be helpful as we can refer to it as a plan for when we film and how everything should be set out.