Story Board

                                       Story Boards                       

We use story boards so that we know exactly what shots we are going to include, and so that we aren't making it up as we go along, story boarding also helps you to see if the opening sequence will work well.

This story board shows the first shots that we will be using in our opening, we have said where we will put our titles of the production companies, so that we know where we will put it for the opening sequence. In these shots you can see the boy is at school and is finishing the day off, however from the story boards we can see that his identity is remaining hidden from the camera, this is purposely done because we don't want the audience to gather too much information. Then we have montage shots of him going from school to home, we drew them on the story board because it shows us the clear order, for example when he is putting mascara on it is only showing half of his face, again this is hiding his identity from us as the audience. We also put next to the drawings of what type of camera shots that we will be including. This is to make sure we know what we are doing, and planning ahead before going out to shoot. Finally we then see the shots of him changing his identity to a goth, however again the story boards show that his identity is hidden from the camera which is continued through the whole opening sequence.

From the story boards we can again see use of over the shoulder shots, which is starting to give use hints about the character, however from the story board you can see that there is a range of medium to close up shots. However we then see the identity of two men, who will be the antagonists in the opening sequences. The storyboard helps us know where the characters will be placed during the shots and filming process. The last shot showing the two men is important, because it makes us wonder what costumes they would be wearing, and how we don't want to give too much of their identity away because the convention of 'anticipation' in a thriller opening sequence wouldn't work if we gave their identity straight away.

In the final shots towards the ending of the opening sequence we can see that his identity is still remaining hidden from the camera, the story board again is showing that we will see his face at one point, however there will be use of a shallow focus which means that the radio will be in focus, however his face wont be. Overall the story boards give us a rough outline of what the shots will have to look like, for example the final shot, we need to have a coin spinning, however we don't know how we would make a coin spin on it's own so we put in detail of the shots we need leading up to that point.