Inspirations Individual storyboard- Miss Miller

Storyboards are used to help gather all the ideas a director may have into a chronological ordered structure. They are a way of seeing how you would expect your narrative to look like, but on paper giving it a more real feel and giving small sketches. When planning my group narrative, we each created our own storyboard to show how we each interpreted our idea. My storyboard is shown below,and shows how I expect each frame to look;

Inset pics of my storyboard

I have included my individual story board and have created many ideas from the camera angles and narratives of other thrillers I have been analysing in the different thrillers in previous posts. I have included high angle shots in my individual storyboard so that the audience believe that there is somebody watching the young girl. This will immediately create the suspense I need in order to make the audience more engaged with my thriller. I have also included jump cuts so that the emphasis on the time running out for the young girl, and to make sure I do not give much away in the thriller trailer. This will create a relationship with the audience as it will make them feel on the edge of their seats as the jump cuts makes them feel like they are in the movie, and yet they will be oblivious on the consequences about to come due to the sudden change in camera shot.  I have used many different conventions of a thriller including eerie music when the suspense and tension is being created, iconography such as the knife for the killing weapon which is typically used in thrillers, and the costume, hair and makeup is conventional in my idea as the killers identity is always hidden and they victims are in normal clothing which makes the audience feel like it is a real scenario. I have also included low key lighting to add to the emphasis of the darkness happening in the thriller, it will make the audience suspicious about what will happen Next as it intensifies everything, as they won't be able to see all around them, only what's in front of them.

I have created an individual storyboard before I make a group narrative, because it will help us to generate more ideas as a group and enable us to help one another with the ideas we have cooperated in our individual ones. To help make our group narrative more interesting our group will need to take ideas from each and every one of our narrative in order to develop a better idea for our thriller. I hope we incorporate ideas from my narrative like the low key lighting and the jump cuts as I believe it will show that we have used conventions of a thriller but yet changed them so that everything becomes more intense as I believe if we use those two elements the audience will be on Horne edge of their seat and entangled within the film.

I have taken inspiration from films I have analysed in previous posts, including paranormal activity and scream. The idea of the high angle shot has come from paranormal activity, in which it shows that there is a recording of the situation happening. I have putt his in my individual narrative as when watch get he clip from the film it made me feel on edge, as it made my heart beat a lot faster due to the amount of tension being created. It made me feel like they are being watched, and I thought this would be excellent for the suspense builder in my thriller. Another research method that helped me was from the film scream. The hidden identity of the villain is always key in thrillers and the idea of the villain being masked showed me how much it intensifies a murder as you have no idea who the killer is.

The summary of my thriller is that I have made sure that nothing is given away, it leaves the audience is suspense and engaged in the story making them want to watchtower he full effect of the film. I have given it reality in which the audience can relate to the characters, their feelings and the narrative itself. This has helped us when planning our group narrative as we have been able to take different ideas from each others storyboard and work well as a team to discuss the positives and negatives of each sequence, which has enabled us to put together a storyboard that we all thing will be helpful to our thriller.