Individual Storyboard- Miss Miller

During the process of making any film, it's easier to have a plan of what you want to do in your sequence ; not only does it help you have a clearer idea of how you will set out your sequence but it gives you a clearer view on what you would need to include in these particular parts of the sequence such as Sound, Editing, Iconography and a brief description of the Narrative. It gives you a clearer understanding of how you imagine your sequence to be. It gives the group overall different opinion's as to what you would need to add, different ideas from your own individual storyboard and will give the overall group storyboard different elements that are your own ideas.

My storyboard starts of with an over the shoulder shot of the victim overlooking a dead body in front of her in the isolated house. The iconography in this is a rope and the weapon which is a knife just laying on the floor, which creates an enigma for the audience. Going over my storyboard I  think it would've been a better idea to do an establishing shot of the setting which will show the audience that it's in the middle of no where and will create an enigma throughout, this would be very conventional throughout.



My sound in my storyboard the lighting is the same in the first four frames as it's trying to create tension straight away in the beginning of my sequence. The Low key lighting is showing the audience that something bad is going to happen, which would create an enigma to the audience as they don't know what is going to happen yet. The camera shots in my individual storyboard in frame 7 is a reaction shot of the victim this is to show the audience how the victim is feeling, this camera shot builds a relationship with the audience as your experiencing what the victim is which makes the audience feel sympathetic for the victim. In frame 14 in my individual storyboard there is an over the shoulder shot of the victim on her laptop this is to put the audience in the victims shoes and experience what the victim is experiencing, this builds a relationship with the audience as your feeling what the victim is feeling.  The extreme close-up in frame 12 is of the victim, this is to show the victims facial expression in clear detail and makes you feel sympathetic towards the victim, which the audience the grow a relationship with the victim as you can see gig emotional the victim is.

Creating individual storyboards within my group is to create different ideas that we may all have different ideas that we can add in our group storyboard. Individual storyboard is your own ideas on how you want your sequence to go; With the whole group having individual storyboards it means having everyone's ideas which will be a piece of everyone's own idea. Within my individual storyboard there's elements such as Editing in one of my editing ideas is a reaction shot; this shot is to show the victims reaction to what is going on which will engage the audience more as you understand how the victim is feeling and shows us their emotions which will make the audience grow a relationship with the victim. Moreover I also used slow editing; this is to slow down one part of the scene to another, which will create suspension due to everything slowing down it makes the audience feel intrigued as to what is going to happen after this particular editing. I took these two particular inspirations from different Thriller films such as Misery and from my previous post the film Cabin in the woods, I used this inspiration as it created an effect on me when I watched the sequence; which is what I want to do to the audience watching mine.


The cinematography in my storyboard has an over the shoulder shot this is to make the audience feel like they are in the characters shoes. By doing this it makes the audience feel like they are apart of the scene; which makes it more suspenseful for the audience. An over the shoulder shot is to put the audience in the characters shoes, an over the shoulder shot is normally used when the victim is going to experience something, this helps the audience build a relationship with the victim and go through what she is going through. This is the most significant as it includes the audience more.


The mise-en-scene that I have included is low key lighting the low key lighting, low key lighting is they key element used in a thriller film as it highlights the vulnerability which is about to happen to the victim. Within the first shot of my thriller film we are going to use low-key lighting as its relevant in this particular shot, as it's highlighting the victims vulnerability. The shots after the first shot all use low-key lighting as each time it's highlighting something key in the shots.


The sound used in  frame number 3 in my storyboard is non diegetic tense music as it helps engage the audience also makes the audience wonder what is going to happen next; non-diegetic sound helps the audience feel like their more included within the scene. By having non-diegetic tense music it makes the audience feel more tense and uneasy, which is how we want our audience to feel. In one of the thriller films we have previously watched was 'Psycho' and within this film there is a well known scene, which is the shower scene, where there is non-diegetic music, which is now a popular sound that is known to the film 'Psycho'.


The editing within my storyboard in the last frame is fast pace editing this is used as it's showing the audience how fast her life is going by, by using the fast pace editing is speeds everything up showing the audience that she is running out of time, which makes the audience feel more tense.





My storyboard overall has a clear planning on how my thriller sequence is going to go; the elements link with each of the drawings in the scene; With the clear understanding of what is happening in my storyboard it gives the rest of the group better understanding of what they would want to include from my storyboard. My storyboard has a short but detailed narrative description which links perfectly with the next scene of the storyboard, The only weakness within my storyboard is that the editing techniques should be different but most of mine is the same.