Individual Storyboard - Miss Miller

The purpose of a storyboard is to make myself and viewers more experienced and provide extra detail towards what our opening sequence is going to be about and how we will make it effective towards

Conventions of thrillers. They are used within film planning to make sure me and my group are all organised for this sequence and to make sure we are all on the same page towards what we want to do with a particular scene. Planning storyboards allow us to make sure when filiming, everything goes smoothly and effectively.

We created individual ones before our group one to ensure everyone understand what our sequence is about and to make sure all of our storyboards are the same or similar.

I hope my individual post will benefit planning my group post as it also allows me to become more familiar and informed towards what type of method I have planned to use for a certain type of scene. As we all know what scenes we have planned to do, by having some different individual storyboard results, will allow us as a group decide which method we think would make our scene more effective and why. This also builds our team working skills as we have to communicate and all put our points across as to why we believe this would benefit towards our sequence. 

The general idea of my sequence is a teenage girl so fed up with paranoia and being constantly frightened that she believes it is only best to end her life by jumping of a bridge. During her moments of standing on the bridge, the audience get to see why she has come towards this conclusion by seeing some of her past by using flashbacks. This gives the audience some information towards why she feels this way. After the flashbacks, a friendly stranger comes to save her, being the protagonist of the sequence. As the audience create a bond with this character immediately, enphasises the tragedy of her death when she is murdered by the antagonist. The sequence is left with Brittany finding out the only person she trusts has been killed, leaving a cliff hanger to be audience. 

We hope the audience will feel sympathic towards the main character Brittany, we made her the typical female victim, young and pretty purposeful so the audience feel as if more sorrow for her. We also want the audience to feel tense within the sequence as there will be a lot of suspense within scenes, for example the alley-way scenes when Brittany is convinced she is about to be put into danger.

We have taken inspirations from different thriller films to make it more orginal but used some ideas and interpreted it into our own perception. 

This storyboard will have a lot of various lighting methods the differ the moods that is intended to be represented. Low key lighting will be extremely effective in this opening sequence as it will represent a certain amount of danger that the audience will sympathise for, allowing there to build upon a relationship in which will make this opening sequence effective. This will be effective as the audience will create a bond with the heros or victims of the opening sequence, making it more relatable in a way when the antagonist is about to put them into danger. 

The sound will be very tension building, this will then make certain scenes seem more scary to the character, the scenario and even the audience will experience suspense, tension and shock. These 3 things are very important in the genre of thriller and sound plays a big role either this topic. Without certain sounds, a scene with a lot of potential to be effective may not appeal to the audience, making it an unsuccessful film. An example of when I will be using dramatic sound is when she will be walking home and hears a sudden crack in the bush from a twig(off screen sound). By using non-diegetic sound to add during the scene, will enhance dramatic effect and make the scene seem more thrilling.