Creating the storyboard

This week we began the process of creating our storyboard to assist us with visualising the sequcence and creating a logical order for shooting. Initially we finalised our idea and began to create specific shots to construct the sequence. The storyboard is a vital document as it provides a guide to the production crew and allows film makers to impose order on the specific technical aspects of the scene. Each storyboard page is detailed with the following technicalities-
Location
Shot/Movement
Sound
Lighting
Edit Transition
Timing

• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.
• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself.
• Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.
• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement.
• Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.
• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies.
• Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face.
• Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.
• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.
• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.
• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.
• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.

We were to then finalise our ideas in a list of shots. These were to help us finalise the timings, actions etc for the storyboard. Eventually, we were to create our storyboard. We had to write in our ideas and details of each scene to accurately give an account of our clip. We had to draw in simple diagrams of each scene to prodce visual aid. This allowed the individual who came up with the idea to express themselves in what they imagined their idea to look like as well as allowing outsiders to visualise what the clip portrays.

Research of the Thriller film

To create our Thriller we had to research before hand for ideas, constructive advice and influence. Many sources were used including Google images, films that we had already studied, YouTube links and books that we had studied outside of the classroom. "Poison Study" by Maria V. Snyder was our main inspiration. Here are the following sources that we used to create and inspire our Thriller-

YouTube videos are very good sources. As well as visual aids it can inspire and help with audio. With in our film making, it is simple to film an action shot, but sound is normally always the hardest and most forgettable. It is hard to realistically create sounds and to create them to sync with your visual piece of work, especially ambient sound. Therefore, YouTube helps us to see how audio and visual action link together. This clip in particular influenced our route of rituals.



The book was our main influence, because this is were the bulk of the story comes from. We have developed it further, obviously, yet this is still a huge part of our story.

Preliminary

Synopsis of Thriller- FIVE

The stroy is set in 1963 in the American countryside. A 52 year old American man, Ryan, who needs to seek revenge of the murder of his wife. His wife, Suzy was a lot younger than him, she was 29 at the time of her murder, aslo an American. She was murdered by the wife of the man she had an affair with. Ryan was quite a spiritual man, not Christian, but Black Magic. He has as ritual that he wants to perform to regain his wife, and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims He chose them as they all had diffferent characteristics to his wife. His four vitctims were Ella, Estelle, Caroline and Harriot. Mean while, the daughter is witnessing all of these women being taken away and never seen again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement were she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family bloody of the man. Unfortunately Ryan has turned completely dilusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual does not end up working because the daughter isn't actually his, his wife had an affair with the husband of the women who murdered her and the daughter was his and not Ryans.

Thriller Films

What is a Thriller?

Originally, it means "to pierce"

A thriller relies on intracacy of a plot to create fear, apprehension and suspense in the hearts and minds of the audience. It plays on our most basic worries bby drawing on most infanticle and therefore repressed thoughts. These thoughts can be voyeuristic (watching without the person knowing), sexual or violent.
The thriller acheives this by raising questions or Engima codes, the unkwn, in the mind of the audience. Most thrillers have universal themes at their core- the struggles over love, death or money. It is this struggle that often engages the audience. It is also done through a sense of delay. When something does happen there is a sense of relief from that tension.

In many ways the thriller genre is sadomasoclistic (enjoy other peopls discomfort), the audience enjoys watching the director cause pain and suffering to the characters. Our pleasure is derived from there discomfort because believing what happens, getting us emotionally involved and leaving us with gut-level feelings produces a great thriller.


This is an example of a supernatural sub-genre





This is an example of a spy sub-genre.


This is an example of a psychological sub-genre