Our animated story board.

We had decided to do an animated story board as it would help us understand the sequence of events that we are going to shoot, now we have realised what the opening is going to be about we started to make sketches of what our overall opening will be. My group wants to make sure that the storyboard is clear so, Laura, the artistic flair in our group will draw the girl and the stalker, however because we are all participating in making the story board Ashleigh will draw the background of each story board. I will be drawing the title and transition whilst Jess writes and draws down the other labels such as the productions, editor and the actresses/actor.

However when completing the storyboard we had felt like there was something missing, when looking at the pictures we knew what the story was about but we were afraid of the fact that our target audience may not understand the events that are happening here so we sat down as a group and discussed the possibilities of changing the storyboard. Before, our story board was mediocre, it had just showed the girl washing her hands and having flashbacks which we thought as a opening it was not as gripping enough even though it did not have to. Jessica then decided that the audience will understand the daydream even more if we put an effect on it. Ashleigh then decided that a voice over would be a good idea too, we did not want the voice over to be overpowering as it can be annoying to look at what is happening in the scene whilst listening too it. So we will use little clips of the voice over to understand the story, this meant we had another character into the opening, we will not see the bestfriend but hear her voice over explaining the paranoia her bestfriend was having. Yet when the day dream comes we will not hear the voice over as we want the audience to focus on the visual side, so in our animated story board we added what parts would have the voice over by adding a symbol on the side. I then decided to finish the opening off I wanted a scream, a suspense to build out the tension as this is what most psychological movies do before they open a establishing shot afterwards. Our storyboard was in a chronological order but we decided that we would put the title last when the scream appears, although most titles appear in the beginning we did our research and found out that sometimes the opening can happen and then end with a title after all the productions have been shown.

The storyboard allowed us to come up with other ideas to improve our opening but now we have finished it will allow us to remember the sequence of events and act as a guideline towards our shoot because if we do decided to shoot different scene but not in the same order as the story board then we will know what scene we will have to go back too.

We will show both videos of our story board, the original one and then the better one: