Individual Storyboard - Miss Miller

Individual Storyboards 

 What is the purpose of a storyboard; why are they used in film planning?

Storyboards are used to help put loads of different ideas together to create a collection of images of what is going to happen in each scene and some text explaining it as well. A storyboard will usually give a rough overview of what is going to happen in the real film, they help people point out any errors or problems that they might come across when they come to creating the real clip.

Why will you be creating individual ones before creating a group one?/How you hope your individual post will help when planning your group one?
we are going to make individual storyboards first before creating a group one as we want to ensure we choose the best possible ideas and creating individual ones first will allow us to choose the ideas that are easiest to portray and to create and the ideas that we all agree on as a group. Creating an individual storyboard before creating a group one will help my group when planning our group storyboard as together we will consider everyone's ideas and it is the most efficient way of contributing and combining everyone's ideas together. It will also help us as in our individual storyboards, we will be able to point out any errors we might have come across in our own ideas and therefore know not to include them in our group storyboard reducing the amount of problems we find whilst filming.

Include a brief summary of what you have included within your storyboard (general idea of sequence). 
 in my storyboard i have included the camera shots that are going to be used, the location of the shot, the iconography in the shot, the lighting being used, the actors that are going to be present at the time, the sound being included, the editing and a narrative description of whats happening. We have included these specific elements for each shot as it allows us to carefully think about how we want our shots to be portrayed by our audience and the effect that they are going to create.

Explain why you have included certain elements (low key lighting, reaction shot editing etc.) and what you hope they will create for the audience. 
 In frame 4 we have made the location a train going through a dark tunnel, this will hopefully create fear of the unknown for the audience and put them in suspense wondering whats going to happen when the train comes out the other side. We have included the sound of the train tracks, train doors opening/closing and other train station sounds emphasized in shots two and three, this will create suspense for the audience as it portrays that something dangerous is going to happen soon, this will therefore make the audience scared and fearful. We have made the lighting high key at the beginning, this is to symbolize that everything is calm and safe and then when there is an element of danger we are using low key lighting. This is to show and highlight to the audience the contrast between the character being safe and un safe.

Identify where you have taken some of your inspirations from in relation to films analyzed for previous posts. 
 We have taken the idea of being at a train station from the film 'Creep' this is where a blond female victim falls asleep whilst waiting for a train and then becomes in a large amount of danger, we thought it would be effective to use this location as its not a commonly used place for a thriller to take place and would therefore shock and surprise the audience. We have also got inspirations from 'The Haunting In Connecticut' as this film includes a large amount of conventional aspects to a thriller such as a lot of non diagetic sound, this is where we got the idea from and we are going to use a heartbeat sound, emphasized train sounds and other non diagetic sounds to create suspense for the audience.

Explain how you will need to incorporate each other’s ideas when creating the group one and which specific ideas you hope they will take on board from yours. 
 We're going to make sure we include everyone's ideas in our group storyboard by taking the best aspects of each of our storyboards. This will ensure that everyone in our group is happy with the final storyboard and therefore making us all eager to carry on and create the best thriller clip we can. I hope my group and i take the idea of the setting and location to be on a train and train station from my individual storyboard as i think its an interesting place to film and we could really make it conventional to a thriller and shock the audience.

How helpful have you found this with regards to filming your sequence.

Creating these storyboards have helped us thoroughly go through our idea and make sure we are all clear of what is going to happen so we don't have any confusions. Creating the storyboards has also made my group and i more aware about what camera angles and editing styles we are going to use during and after filming, this will benefit us as we will be able to make sure our camera angles work with what type of atmosphere we are trying to create and allow us to plan what we are going to do with our work to make it the most effective we can.