Storyboard for Opening Sequence

Potential Titles for our Thriller Opening Sequence

Shotlist of Final Thriller Idea

Girl getting off the bus
Girl walking in street
Texts mum saying she is on her way home
Shot of feet walking
Shot of car in the distance
She hears a noise behind her
Looks around- go pro on her
Starts walking faster but not running
Heart beat is emphasized- by the sound of knife chopping to show canabilsm
Car drives past
Sigh of relief
Man cross the road and drops a fork and car runs over it
Title Appears

Girl getting off bus- midi shot and zoom out to show friends saying bye.
Girl walking in the street- switch shots between go pro and wide shot.
Texts mum - zoom in on phone.
Shot of feet- zoom in (emphasize the noise of the shoes)
Wide shot of car in the distance- shallow focus
Cuts to the car to show the man watching her
Looks around- go pro
Starts walking faster- go pro and wide shot
Car drives past- wide
Zoom in on the girls face
Man crosses the street and a fork drops out his pocket onto the road, zoom in and car drives over it.
Fade to black and title appears.

Now we have created our timeline of our film we can focus on developing the narrative and script in more detail as well as work on important casting choices.

Second by Second Shot list

Shot	Second
Wide Tracking Shot	0.16
Front Wide Shot	0.18
Wide Tracking shot	0.19
Wide Tracking Shot	0.23-0.31
Front Wide shot	0.31
Close up floor shot	0.33
Close up phone shot	0.37
Go pro, point of view shot	0.39
Mid-panning down shot	0.40
Wide shot	0.43
Wide shot	0.46-0.54
Behind-mid shot	0.55
Extreme Close up of face	0.57
Point of view shot	1.00
Extreme facial feature close up	1.02
Point of view shot	1.03
Extreme facial feature close up	1.05
Point of view shot	1.07
Panning shot	1.08
Point of view shot	1.09
Canted angle mid shot	1.11
Point of view shot	1.12
Focus Pulled Mid shot	1.14
Low angle – mid shot	1.18
Wide shot from behind	1.19
Floor shot	1.20
Wide shot from behind	1.21
Floor shot	1.22
High-angle close up	1.22
Wide shot	1.22
Gro-pro, birds eye view shot	1.23
Mid shot	1.24
Point of view, rapid movement shot	1.26
Panning shot	1.28
Point of view, rapid movement shot	1.29
Extreme Close up	1.29
Panning shot	1.30
Point of view shot	1.32
Low angle shot	1.33
Point of view, rqpid movement shot	1.34
Close up of body features shot	1.36
Panning shot (left to right)	1.37-1.40
Close up, slow motion shot	1.42
Point of view tilt shot	1.45

A Start Towards Our Final Idea

Survey on Opening Sequence Idea

I did a survey and got my older friends and family to answer it, who are 18 years old and over as this is out target audience. I found this information really useful as i know what the audience want to see. This will make the opening sequence be the best of its ability.

From this i can tell that the audience would watch this but not if it was too scary or intense so this will be taken into account.

From this i can tell that majority of people who did my survey think that a forest is a good setting for my opening sequence.

From the survey, i can tell that we should have a teenage girl as it makes more effect on the audience.

I can infer that we could use fonts, and filters that are red and black.

From this i can see that many people like action and psychological thrillers which is what the final idea is

What makes a good thriller?

I can see from these comments that to make a thriller it needs to be scary, gripping, enigma, fast pace,  needs to make the audience alert and be unexpected.

From this survey, i can see what my audience will enjoy and hopefully all these answers will impact on the final opening title sequence. This has given me good ideas into developing an opening sequence with an attractive girl who will appeal to the demographics of 15-24 males. In addition, we will work on incorporating a scare factor to appeal to our target audience.

My Final Thriller idea

This new idea was inspired by this story in the news.

I think this new idea decided by my group and I will be very gripping and scary and fit perfectly in with the genre of thriller.

Moving on with my Idea

I want to discard of my ideas because i have found a better, more thrilling idea of a stalker scene. I don't like the ebola idea as it is in the news a lot. I don't think the kidnapping idea is good because young children are hard to use. Lastly the idea about online is good but without the paedofile.

I propose to do a scene set in a forest. A girl will be isolated in the open woodland area. There will be someone else in the forrest which we do not actually see the identity of to make it scarier. I will have the main person being followed in all black. This would be an action thriller.

Thriller Idea