Final Storyboard of all the Scenes- for editing

This is a collated post of all of our storyboards, making up the final storyboard of our entire two minuet film opening.

Chase Scene

 Death Scene

 Flash Backs

Chase Scene Final Storyboard:

I was in charge of the second re-filming of the chase scene but I used the ideas from Raman's previous storyboard and just altered the location. I had an idea of shooting it around the bridge near school and ended up coming up with this storyboard.

Firstly I wanted our victim to be running along roads with the villain in the background, using a variety of camera angles.
I then wanted her running onto the bridge and along it still with the villain behind, using camera angles where she is running towards and away from the camera as it would be good to edit them so the shots alternate.

Still with the victim running on the bridge, I really liked the idea of her looking over the bridge down to the motorway, almost as if she is contemplating suicide but decides not to. I wanted to do this in a POV shot as I think it would look effective and would give the audience an insight into her feelings at this moment. 

She then runs towards the other side of the bridge and goes down the stairs, I included a POV shot which would could alternate with the shots of her running down. 

The villain then comes down behind her and as the victim lies down on the stone bit under the bridge, he finally catches up with her.

The chase scene then ends with the original shot that Raman planned with the camera going into the victims mouth after she's been struggling for a few seconds. I liked this idea and planned to keep it in as a good way to transition from the chase scene to the death scene/flashbacks. 

We ended up using this storyboard in our final filming session and we used most of the shots explained here, so hopefully we should be able to edit them so the footage can be cut down to around 30-35 seconds.

Storyboard for the Death Scene

This is the storyboard that I created for the Death Scene within our film opening. The "z" lines between the shots planned are where I intend to add the "flashbacks" that we have already shot.

The Death Scene should last for a duration of around a minuet and a bit, meaning that it will take up most of the film opening, meaning that it is a vital part within our filming process to get correct. This is why it is so important to get the plan of this scene correct and organised  for the day of shooting to go smoothly and with minimal problems. This will be reducing, also, our possible need to re-shoot, of which we have already had to do a few times.

Flashback Storyboard

The transitions for all the flashbacks will be fade in then fade out because fading is used to stereotypically portray flashbacks and memories in films.

• There will be a flashback of a close up of the victim's necklace which she will be wearing. The close up will show a bit of her neck and chest to indicate that it is a cross necklace, not just a random cross. This cross is ironic - she is a prostititute, unmarried and in the early stages of pregnancy.
• Extreme close ups of the words Struggling and Pain which the killer will highlight. This will emphasize his obsession with pain, gore and death. Also, it will serve as a 'checklist' and a piece of inspiration - he wants his victims to struggle and feel pain, he admires that.
• An establishing shot of the killer standing at the 'head' of the table, the audience cannot see his face or elements of clothing, he is a silhouette. However, the audience will be able to see the victim clearly, so the killer seems more mysterious and eerie.
• A close up of the victim's bruised and bloody face and a short bit of her necklace made visible. This highlights the killer's powerful and sadisitic nature. It will show the audience what he does to his victims - he beats them to weaken them (or make them unconscious) , then kills them & takes their foetus.
• An establishing shot of the foetus jars on the shelves in the killer's den, again emphasizing his fascination with women and foetuses.

• Another close up of the victim's face however her eyes are open. (When filming we decided on another flashback of him closing her eyes)
• Killer's POV as he operates on the victim, this involves the audience because it makes them feel sorry for the victim, and makes them feel helpless because they can not help her.
• An extreme close up of her gory hand hanging over the edge of the table as blood drips off it.
• A close up of the side of the victim's open stomach to stress the killer love for blood and to fit in with the slasher conventions of showing gruesome images to the audience.
• Killer's POV as he walks up to the bruised victim. This will indicate to the audience that he is about to operate which will build suspense and tension as they feel powerless because they have to sit and watch this happen.
• Killer's POV of him holding the foetus immediately after he has taken it out of her. This will show the audience what the foetus looks like and to portray how he has finally got what he sought after. Also, I've positioned his hands in a way similar to how a priest holds a Bible, as if blood and humans (parts) are what he worships and thrives off.

Storyboard for the Chase Scene

1. The first shot is an establishing shot where the victim is running down a path and the camera is behind her. At this point, the audience are oblivious to what/who she is running away from and that she is pregnant and the killer had beaten her before she got away.

2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 are POV shots from the victim running down the path. This makes the audience feel more involved as they get a sense of her urgency. Then the victim turns around to see how far behind the killer is, and this is the first time the audience are introduced to the idea that someone is after her. However, as this is a film opening, they will not discover why he wants her.

7 + 8. are high angle panning shots where the audience can see the victim desperately running away from the killer then pausing by a tree to catch her breath. This high angle makes her look inferior, smaller than she is compared to the killer.

9. is a close up of her arm as she is leaning against the tree. The audience see a branch cut her and she starts bleeding.

10 + 11 + 12. A mid shot of the victim and the audience see her observe the cut on her arm and squirm at the sight of it. Then, she turns around and her face changes to signal that the killer is getting closer, so she continues running.

13. is a framed as a midshot but it shows his hips and legs so the audience are able to see that the killer has just approached the branch with the victim's blood on it.

14. is the same midshot however the killer bends down to observe the branch. The audience see the killer study the blood with a sadistic grin on his face.

15. is a close up of the killer's face as he smells the blood. This emphasizes to the audience that he is a blood-thirsty killer who enjoys goriness, pain and death.

16 + 17. are wide establishing shots, framed as full body shots, so the audience see the killer rise and begin to sprint, the scent of blood spurring him on, making him more determined to get her to kill her.

18. is framed as the same establishing shot as before, but panning is included which follows the killer running, but then slows down to exaggerate his speed now that he is motivated by her blood.

19. is another establishing shot framed as a full body shot, and is at a high angle, making the victim seem inferior and weaker than the agile and fast killer. Through this shot the audience see her slowing down, she is now tiring and needs to stop. She stops running forward and moves to the side.

20 + 21. A midshot in which the audience see her move behind a thick tree in order to hide away from the killer. They see her panting, then tilting is used to follow her as she falls down to the ground, tired and frightened, and she puts her head in her hands and weeps.

22 + 23. A close up showing her upset, melancholic expression, and she takes her Cross necklace and looks up and says "Please God, save us". (We chose to include a Cross as it is ironic because she is a prostitute who is pregnant and unmarried.) The camera then tilts down to show the audience who 'us' and this is when the audience officially discover she is pregnant.

24. is the killer's POV as he approach the tree the victim is hiding behind. This will make the audience feel helpless as they know he is there, but the victim does not.

25 + 26. A low angle shot of the ground where the victim and killer's feet are visible. The audience see his feet walk up to the tree and pause, holding them at the edge where they are waiting and wanting to see what he does to her. She is crying so hard that she cannot hear him approaching her. In the same shot, the audience see him move around the tree.

27. A high angle close up shot of the victim, making her appear smaller and weaker compared to the killer. The close up reveals her reaction to seeing the killer.

28. A two shot of the victim and killer to empahsize how he has finally caught her. The audience see the killer grab the victim by her neck and drag her up so she is standing face-to-face opposite him. He then strangles her.

29. is a close up, framed as a high angle POV from the killer, displaying her distressed face as she tries to scream for help. The camera zooms onto her mouth.

30 + 31. An extreme close up of the victim's open mouth as she is screaming and the camera continues zooming into her mouth and then fades out into the operation scene.

Additional Ideas for Storyboard

For the killer's diary, we have decided to use very formal, and fancy handwriting as seen in Anne Frank's diary, because it is adds to the old-fashioned theme of our project (which includes a record player and old music being played).

Similar to Anne Frank's diary, we will have pictures of folklore foetuses and pregnant women, as mentioned in a previous post, to emphasise his obsessive nature to the audience.

Also, I think that we should have an extreme close up of some book titles (idea of books from Annie's post) - we have a book called Fear is Key, and we could get some books about pregnancy, post-natal depression, operations, sedatives, women's health and so on. This close up will give the audience a greater insight into his obsession with women, so I feel that we should include this, even if it is for a split second.

From our trip to Shoreditch, Annie and I went into a vintage store and saw a basket with women's purses in it and this gave us the inspiration to, perhaps, have a basket with all his victim's clothes in. If we were to have this, the clothes, shoes, purses and so on would serve as souvenirs of his victims which, again, highlights his fascination and obsession. This can be shown using a close ups so the audience can see the items properly.

As well, in the middle of the room there is going to be a table so the victim is the centre of attention for the audience. The table is going to have plastic on it so the blood collects itself to make the death more gory and gruesome. From Annie's post, she included pictures of a victim on a cloth on a table, however we want to incorporate some of Dexter's room (in the same post) so we will use plastic instead of cloth.

My group decided that the killer is going to wear a mask to cover his face which will have Adore & Endure carved into his forehead. In the chase scene he will be wearing a mask, then in the operation scene he will be wearing a doctor's mask and scrubs to tell the audience that he is a professional, but crazed and does not operate to save people, he does it to kill them. This is similar to an episode of Hannibal where a mentally unstable doctor operated on someone, taking out their organs one by one to see the minimum number of organs the victim can survive without.

 



Our Film Opening Storyboard

Below shows the story board that we as a group planned. We tried to get all of the ideas that we have had so far into the sequence, linking to all the deconstructions and practical work that we have done through out this process, but also, relating to the result that we collected from our survey about the ideas we had for our film opening.

Drawing out the rough plan that we made together, I added notes about our ideas for camera angles and movement, costuming, lighting, sound and actions of the actors, where appropriate, along with small sketches of different shots that we would be taking.

All together, I feel as if my group and I now have a physical plan of what we are going to do, whereas before, we just had an idea. This storyboard is only our first, however, and due to time restraints of the two minuets and other aspects, the plan will probably change slightly to suit our circumstance more appropriately.

SHOT 1- Our production company animation will start off our opening sequence. This will be on a block screen with the animation that we will make run on top of it.

SHOT 2,3&4- Various changes in shot from over the shoulder shots to close ups to high angle shots of our victim running in a woods. The editing will be fast passed and various, symbolising panic and bringing tension to the scene, allowing the audience to see that she is in trouble and running away from something, or someone.

SHOT 5- At the end of the montage of different angled shots, an extreme close up will be taken of her eye showing tear marks and smudged makeup.

SHOT 6&7- This will be followed by a zooming in of her running away- symbolising the killer catching up with her.

SHOT 8- Followed by an over the shoulder shot of the killer pushing the victim against a tree.

SHOT 9- A zoom camera movement will go from the over the shoulder shot into the victims screaming mouth.

SHOT 10,11&12- Shot 10, 11 and 12 will be extreme close up shots of various stages in lighting where the killer is taking the victim back to his "hide out" and cutting into her

SHOT 12- This will be different as you will hear diegetic sounds of ripping and cutting and blood spurting, and see movement, to which the victim will finally be shown to be dead.

SHOT 13- The shots will then change to the killers point of view. It will show an over the shoulder shot of the killer cutting into his victim.

Shot 14&15- Changing shots of close ups and extreme close up shots of different parts of the killers body, showing the audience deformities and scars that he has.

SHOT 16- Then, a side close up shot of the killers face will be shown with the surgical mask on, hiding his features.

SHOT 17- After the killer finishes up, he takes a lump of body materials and places it into a bowl on the table next to his torture table.

SHOT 18&19- A mid shot of the killer standing up will appear, showing him to have gloves on, covered in dripping blood.

SHOT 20- Another close up shot will be shown of the killer turning a record player with the films "theme tune" will play.

SHOT 21- Then an over the shoulder shot of the killer sitting down and start writing in his diary will initiate the following disturbing "memories".

SHOT 22,23&24-As the killer is writing in the diary words such as "struggling", "blood pouring" and "death" will be shown. For example, "blood pouring" and the image of blood pouring out of the victims stomach will be shown in union on the screen, but only for a flash.

SHOT 25- As the scene is going through these different images, it also shows quick shots, getting closer and closer to the killer- building tension, along with the non-diegetic sound

SHOT 26- The final shot will be of the killers face showing some kind of shocking thing. We have not yet decided or confirmed this ending, but at this stage in planning and developing, this is what we plan to do.