Storyboard

    This is our storyboard. The first three are for the opening title sequence. The title sequence starts with the producion company, Big Scream Productions', logo. The logo is of a person lighting a candle in a dark room, so that the only light is a flickering candle. Darkness is often seen in the horror genre as in connotes fear and danger. Candle light is to seen often in the horror genre. Candle light only lights a small area leaving much darkness, creating a sense of danger and fear of what could be lurking in the shadows.

The title sequence continues with the names of the people who created the film and who starred in it. It also contains images of an old, shabby looking book. This is an important clue into the film as the book plays a major role, and the audience will realise that from the recurring images of it.


      

Further into the title sequence we see images of a person writing in this mysterious book. In the actual film the audience will be able to tell that this book is foreboding due to the darkness of the opening sequence being set, and also by chilling music that can be heard.

The opening sequence carries on with names of actors and such, with one final image of a girl, sitting in candle light, writing, in what we assume is the book. The candle light links in with the production company logo.

 

Finally, at the end of the opening sequence the title appears. 'Chapter 4'. Many movie titles appear at the end of the opening sequence of a film, just before the actual film is about to start.













The film starts with two news reporters on tele. The camera then zooms out from focusing on the t.v and shows us a room full of boxes and then of a man sitting in a chair with a remote. This is obviously a home which has just been moved into.

 

Storyboarding is useful as it shows you what the film would look like, so gives you a chance to experiment a bit and see what works and what does not. If you were to film without storyboarding first then you may end up with something that doesn't work as well as you had imagined in your head, and then it is not as easy to correct as on a piece of paper.

 

We then see a woman in a kitchen. Next she has walked into the the same room  as the t.v, where she exchanges dialogue with the male character.

The male character has now had to go outside and finish carrying boxes into the house. This is when the book is first discovered, and the male takes it into the home. Thinking it is only something that has fallen out of a box, the book is placed in a box.

Our film does not follow the storyboard exactly, but it does quite closely. The storyboard gave us good guide lines to film on and was very helpful.