Storyboard Part 1

Today we worked hard on planning and drawing the first part of the storyboard for our film opening. We decided to split it up into two parts, one being in the present, and the other flashing back to events prior. The reason for this is to leave the audience with suspense, wondering how the events got from point a to point b.

The storyboard starts with the opening shot of the woods. We want the opening shot to convey the mystery of the plot. By opening with the dark woods, we establish that the setting is going to be scary and the events that transpire may not be good. We are planning for some shots to be of the trees and some of the road. The next shot is of a girl dragging a body. We don't want the viewers to see who it is but we want it to be clear its a male and the person dragging is female. The shot shot be leveled on the ground so it is more suspenseful up close. The following shots will be very choppy of someone running and breathing heavily. We are thinking of having sounds of a heartbeat and heavy, fast breathing to emphasize the intensity of the situation. The fast cutting of the shots should also emphasize this. We'll see the girl digging and burying something, with a lot of close ups of her face. Her face will be covered in makeup and dirt so viewers can see what a rough condition she's in. It'll close with her looking at the missing poster of the boy which hopefully viewers will understand as the body she just buried.

We worked very productively to get this first few seconds of our opening done and are excited to work on part 2!