Firstly our group started by making a list of some ideas which would suit the thriller genre. Ideas including someone being chased, a stalker victim, and a hostage. When we had our list of ideas we decided to go for a paranormal thriller. One of our group members (Emma Ford) mother's owns a business called 'Haunted Happenings' We decided to take advantage of this and use one of her venues, Tutbery Castle, where she holds events as the set for the opening to our thriller. We then created a mind map, which is seen in the picture above, about the smaller details which will be in our thriller. In our mind map it included the camera shots angles and positions, the cast, the mise en scene, the sounds and editing. Everything which is going to influence our opening to the thriller.
After gathering all of our ideas we started designing storyboard which, when filming, we will follow.
Storyboard
The first shot will be of the gates of
Tutbury Castle which is where all our filming will take place. It will be a straight shot of the gates, which slightly jolts. This will be followed by a very quick flash from a birds eye view of lots of pairs of hands on a table, as if they are about to do table tipping. The room will be low lit which will hep build suspense for the audience. After the quick flash of the shots it will cut back to the gates which will be opening, the camera will then move through the gates asif walking through them. In the background you will be able to hear footsteps. The shot will then pan left to some gravestones, setting the scence for the audience. The camera then zooms in headstones, being able to see the writing. This will also add horror to the scene as it makes it obvious to the audience what the film is potentially about. The shot then pans right across the front of the mansion.
Tutbury Castle which is where all our filming will take place. It will be a straight shot of the gates, which slightly jolts. This will be followed by a very quick flash from a birds eye view of lots of pairs of hands on a table, as if they are about to do table tipping. The room will be low lit which will hep build suspense for the audience. After the quick flash of the shots it will cut back to the gates which will be opening, the camera will then move through the gates asif walking through them. In the background you will be able to hear footsteps. The shot will then pan left to some gravestones, setting the scence for the audience. The camera then zooms in headstones, being able to see the writing. This will also add horror to the scene as it makes it obvious to the audience what the film is potentially about. The shot then pans right across the front of the mansion.
The shot will then cut to the front of the mansion door, it will be a straight shot. The shot will stay the same but people will walk onto the shot and open and walk through the door. Similar to the previous shot of the table tipping, there will be a quick flashing image of a ouija board, the flashing images foreshadows what is going to happen in the rest of the film. The shot will then go through the door and there will then be a slow panning shot of the first room which you walk into. Half way through the slow pan of the room there will be a flash of a glass with two hands touching it at the top moving really fast across the table. There will then be an establishing shot of the castle which will jolt.
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