My group and I created this group story board and included specific elements from each others individual story boards because we felt it would create a successful group story board. For example, on the first sheet on the first camera angle, Vasil suggested that we do an eye level camera shot because we felt it showed the audience an approachable character by having it at eye level allows the audience to build a relationship with the character. Also, Vasil suggested that we use low key lighting in this shot, and because this is the first scene used the use of low key lighting could be a metaphor for how the film's going to be quiet dark and mysterious, so George and I felt this would be a particularly good thing to include in our group story board.
George helped to create a fantastic element to add in our group story board shown on the last sheet on the first one on the right where the husband comes face to face with his dead wife. He said it would create a lot of tension because there would be silence leading to this point so the audience would be feeling tense and nervous, so it would be achieving typical conventions of a thriller such as shock, surprise and suspense. We decided to use a close up at this point because close ups show the facial expression and emotion that a character either is or isn't feeling. George suggested that by using this at this point in our group story board it would be very effective and engage the audience because they wouldn't expect it so Vasil and I felt this would be a good feature to include in our group story board.
Lastly, I took from my individual story board an idea to include in the group story board which can be seen on the last sheet on the last camera angle which was to have a close up of the killers face for a brief moment and the reason for this is to finish the opening sequence off with a shock to the audience and to in force the theme of fear and enigma in it. Vasil and George wanted this in our group story board as they felt this was a strong idea to include and help made the thriller more realistic because the audience are therefore able to match the killer with a face, even if it is a mask. Often 'less is more' as it leaves to the imagination, and in most circumstances with thrillers this would be perfect to use, but we felt that as a group it would be the most effective to link an image with our killer as we felt it would create more of a relationship between the audience and the killer.
Looking at each others story board contributed to a large part of our opening sequence as it was stable and strong. Being able to reflect on our story board allowed us to work well together and produce a strong piece of work because the story board gave us our 'guide lines' as such in order to make sure our opening sequence made sense and to keep our trail of thought tracked so we were able to expand on our ideas each time we meet and explore different techniques using each others ideas. I believe our story board shows a confident piece of work with creative ideas and skills that we have all learned. However, if there were an opportunity to redo this task I would change the narrative description so there was a clear and in depth annotation of each camera shot to show that as a group we were able to understand what the techniques we want to include will do to the audience and to show that we are able to use a wide variety of different elements that are conventional to a thriller in order to show clear understanding of why we used these techniques.
You have given a good analysis of your group storyboard, explaining where specific ideas came from with regards to your group members and how they were adapted/incorporated within your sequence.
ReplyDelete1) Explain how certain elements will help make the sequence more conventional/help the audience build a relationship with characters etc.