Storyboarding

The following images are the finished product of our storyboarding. Ultimately as a group we are very pleased with how it looks and feel that it conveys both the camera angles we wish to use and the images we intend to capture effectively. As can be seen from the storyboard our thriller opening will be entitled, "Lady In Red" 

Our thriller will be set in a 1930/40s club and therefore to convey this we will need to focus on the props, set and costume to indicate this to the audience, we feel that the costume we intend for our main character to wear will show this theme especially as it is a typical old 'Hollywood Glamour' style dress and we will even try to use a fur to connote this era to the audience. Moreover, in the editing stage we intend to filter out all colour from the sequence apart from the colour red which holds significance as it connotes that our main character is a dangerous antagonist - equally this effect will make the sequence appear to be reminiscent of a film noir and should make our crime thriller opening more authentic and believable.

The actual storyline centres around our main antagonist, she enters this club and observes her surroundings, before locking eyes with a male character that she obviously knows somehow, there is a quick exchange of glances and then a gun appears although it is not shown who is pulling the trigger, the camera then focuses on the character who has been shot and his reaction before cutting to the antagonist pulling a red umbrella from an umbrella stand confirming that it was in fact her who shot the man as it is the same, distinctive umbrella that she entered the club with,the camera then cuts to her walking away from the club with an ominous smile on her face.

The titles themselves have been written on here just to show where they would go in the shot, however we will research as a group the order in which the titles should go and the title of the film will not be the last shot, it will in fact be the image of the main character walking away.

For the soundtrack we intend to intensify the scene by using typical thriller music that is minor and haunting, perhaps even to slow down a typical 1930/40s jazz song that would be played in the type of club our thriller is set in to intensify the scene and make it more dramatic 

For example; soundtrack 6 from this link, "Happy days are here again" by Milton Ager/ Jack Yellen if slowed right down could be an extremely haunting sound and we could attempt to recreate this style of music and explore something similar using our own ideas to have in the background of our thriller.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/original-dance-music-of-1920s-1930s-mw0000605303

Furthermore, we intend to enhance certain sounds to build suspense such as the gunshot, the clip clop of the antagonists' heels in one particular shot as well as the music playing in the background. 

During the editing process we intend to cut lots of our shots to make them short, sharp and powerful - our thriller is supposed to be very fast paced to keep a high level of tension and excitement for the audience throughout, although we cannot sustain such high levels of tension throughout the whole thing so we may slow down the editing of the sequence at the very beginning and build up as the sequence continues. 

There are many props required for our thriller opening that we have planned to buy or use such as seven umbrellas for our umbrella shots, vintage decorations for the hall we are filming in, a gun, umbrella stand, a red dress and fur, an extra shirt and lastly fake blood. We also need to ask our extra characters who are in the background to dress appropriately for the era/ genre of our thriller. 

After getting everything that we need ready for our thriller opening we are ready to film and will record our thriller opening on Saturday the 8th of November.  

Sources: www.allmusic.com