Individual story boards - Miss Miller

Intro:

The purpose of a story board is to represent the shots which are used throughout the film. This includes having drawings containing a narrative to each part to explain what is happening within each shot.

Main:

In our groups, we have individually created our individual story boards to how the opening of our thriller sequence will be presented. We have done this by coming up with our own 20 sections of different camera angles and shots used in our story board of what is going to happen from the start of the sequence to the very end. This is so i have contributed my ideas to the group. This is important that we do do this with our own individual ideas as then we can only improve it as a group, if we only did a group storyboard and not an individual one, we would have to come with a plan on the spot and would not be to our best ability. This is a good idea as however has created the best storyboard within the group, we would base our sequence around that, adding parts in from the other group members. We would not be able to do this if we didn't do it individually.

My story board:

I have included certain elements in my storyboard, in order to make each shot conventional to the thriller genre. for example towards the end when the antagonist appears, the shot changes into P.O.V. this is conventional as it shows you what is happening throughout the sequence, in the antagonists view. This is to get the audience to build a relationship with the victims, and to sympathise for Gemma as she is stabbed to death. Also i included a knife as part of the iconography included, this is a key weapon used throughout thriller films as a knife leads to blood, blood is also an essential convention to include in our thinner sequence.

Conclusion:

I think my storyboard is successful as i have tried to include all the shots that are nessasary in order to making our sequence work and become successful, i also included all of the iconography which will be seen and used such as the victims phone and car. Later on me and my group will be creating a group storyboard, this is were we will put all 3 of our story boards together and interpret parts of all 3 members of my group, for example some of my ideas may get out at the start, with Chloe's in the middle and Elizabeth's at the end, this way we as a group will end up creating something that we all have put our 100% contribution into, and not just using the best storyboard to put forward and use in the sequence.