Storyboard Draft (2): Final - Mehrabi Ward

Storyboard Draft - Final:

This blog shows the final draft of our storyboard to show any extra shots we decided to add or any shots we didn't use and why. As this is our final storyboard, all the shots shown, all fit in with the shots on our film opening.

• This is the first two shots of our updated storyboard. The writing underneath the boxes says what the shot is of and what type of shot it is. 
• The second shot is the only one thats changed from our first storyboard as we forgot to add in a match on action shot so we developed it to fit the criteria.

• These shots are the same as the ones we planned on using for our original storyboard, which shows that we wee using our first draft of our storyboard when filming.

• We had previously planned to use both these shots in our film opening before we filmed our footage, however for the first shot, it was meant to be a panning shot of just the scenery and the little girl was not meant to be part of it.

• We hadn't originally planned to use these shots in our opening, however as the day we went to film was the first time Charlie, Georgia and I had seen the location, we started getting new ideas, and these shots were one of them.

• These shots are developed on from the last two, where Zoe turns round and stares at the camera as if it were the supernatural figure, that was in the background of the last shot, as explained in the writing under the boxes.

• Again these shots were not planned, before we filmed but we thought they would be effective so we decided to add them in as part of our opening.

• These shots are more developed on from our last storyboard, as we didn't know about the drawings on the walls in the bunker which we then ended up filming. 
• We also didn't originally plan to shoot footage of the supernatural figure in the bunker, as our old idea was to have Zoe looking like she was hanging from a tree, which we decided not to do as it was too dangerous and wouldn't be able to make it look effective.

• These are the final shots to our film opening and it is of the doll that had been dropped to the floor when Zoe gets to the top of the bunker and finds the supernatural figure. 
• We then added our title at the end of our footage, and decided to call it 'They're Coming'. 
• We got this idea as it was what was written on the wall inside the bunker when we got there and we thought it suited our idea very well and was also more effective than all of the other names we had come up with before.

storyboard drafts - Georgia Serrecchia

Storyboard draft:

Below is our draft for our storyboard, these are the individual shots as to what we would like to film on the day. We chose these shots as they fit in with our theme and genre of the opening scene.


This is the opening shot as it will start to create tension in the beginning of the scene which will then cause tension throughout.



This is a shot of the teddy/doll falling out of the girls hands.

Storyboard Drafts(1) - Mehrabi Ward

Storyboard Drafts:

 

The images below are the individual stages of the first draft of our story board.



We originally decided that it would be a good idea to have a our first shot in our film opening of part of the scenery which was of the trees in the woods. We thought this would be effective as it would show the viewer the type of location in the film opening, and also to show that the 'victim' in the opening would be in an isolated place to make her look more vulnerable.

When it came to filming our actual footage, we decided not to use a teddy bear but to use an old battered, broken doll, to add to the frightening effect as we didn't think that if we were to use a teddy bear it would look as scary to the viewer. However we did still have a high angle tracking shot of the doll in the girls hand to add a sense of superiority to the viewer but to also show the horrific features of the doll.



When filming we did have shots of the girl walking through the woods on a pathway, and also climbing through the broken fence however and walking more towards the bunker however these shots lasted slightly longer than 3 seconds.

We did end up using this shot, even after the shot of the girl who is Zoe walking through the woods holding the doll. This shot is meant to be a point of view tracking shot from the black figure watching Zoe walking across the woods.

This shot is also in order of how it was filmed, however we decided to change the position of the black figure to being in the background as we thought it looked more effective if the shot was mainly focussing on the black figure but then at the same time the audience could see the black figure behind her, watching her.

We didn't end up using this shot when filming as we couldn't make it look very effective, and we preferred the idea of Zoe going into the bunker to find the figure in there.

This is where our idea becomes completely different, we came to the conclusion that before filming we wouldn't be able to take a shot like this, as Zoe would have to hang from something to make it look like she is actually hanging, but we thought about it and there wasn't an effective way that this shot could have been achieved as well as that it would have been quite dangerous to perform a shot like this.

This is our final shot from our original story board, this is meant to be a sudden close up shot of the supernatural being's face jump into the camera however when it came to filming we came to the conclusion that this shot wouldn't look effective at all as using one of the person's in our groups faces' wouldn't look scary enough.

As we made so many changes to our film opening compared to what we had planned to film on our story board I decided to re-draft our story board to make it match the shots we actually used in the end.