Opening Scene Narration

Introduction

To come up with our final ideas for our group storyboard, we first had to make individual story boards. This was so we could all show how we felt the opening sequence would go and this also helped us visualise our sequence more. After, we chose the best ideas from everyones individual storyboards and put them together to create a group storyboard.

The first shot is a close-up of the antagonist turning on the radio about girls going missing in the local area. This shot will have a radio voice over as the sound so that it is non-diegetic. As the location is in the antagonists bedroom, the lighting will be high key lighting. The iconography in this scene will just be the radio and the only actor is the antagonist. The scene then goes into an over the shoulder shot also in the antagonists bedroom where he is getting ready in the mirror. The iconography in this scene is the clown mask to hide the antagonists identity and also, the photos go females placed around the mirror. In this shot, there will be high key lighting and a straight cut will also be used during this too. There will be non-diegetic sound as the radio is still playing in the background whilst he is getting ready. From this over the shoulder shot, it will go into an extreme close-up of a picture of his next victim. The editing in the shot will be when it zooms into the picture and fades to black so it can turn into a flashback. The iconography here will be the picture of the victim as this tells the audience who it is. The lighting will be low key and there will be silence in the room. This shot will then use the straight cut to go into a long shot of the young victim in school as the clown places a note in her bag. The iconography here is her bag and the note. The lighting will be high-key because she is in school and the will be suspenseful music as he goes to place the note in her bag. The shot will then fade out and zoom out into the next scene. When it goes into the next shot, it will be an extreme close-up of the picture of the victim in the antagonists hand. This will be back in the antagonists bedroom with high key lighting. The iconography here is only of the picture of the victim. There will be off screen sound here as the radio is playing in the background and it will then zoom out into an over the shoulder shot. This is where the antagonist puts the picture back up on the mirror. There will be high key lighting here and the iconography is the radio and the pictures of all the females on his mirror. This shot will still have the radio in the background and we will use a wipe cut to take it into the next shot. This shot is also an over the shoulder shot but of the antagonist walking out the front door with a knife. The lighting will be high key and the iconography will be of the knife which tells the audience that will be his weapon. We will use non-diegetic sound here as there is suspenseful music to build up tension for the audience. From here, linking of shots will be used.

The next shot is a close-up of the victims bag as she finds the note. In this shot, the iconography will be of the bag and the note and there will be high key lighting as she is still as school. There will be silence as she finds the note and then a straight cut used to go into the next shot. This will also be a close-up but of the note itself telling the girl to meet her secret admirer down the alley whom she doesn't know is actually someone that wants to kill her. There will be high key lighting and the iconography will only be of the note. As she reads this note, there will be silence as this creates tension for the audience. From here it will zoom in to show that it is coming out of the flashback. This will go into a long shot of the victim towards the alley. This scene will show the first part of the low key lighting with conventional sounds to what the audience would expect to hear. The iconography here will just be of the bag. The next shot will also be a long shot but of the victim walking through the alley way ready to meet the antagonist. Here, there will be low key lighting with non-diegetic tension music in the background. The iconography here will be the photos of the victim hung up along the fence. The editing in this scene will be slow paced. From here, the long shot goes into a high angle where the victim notices the photos of herself and goes to look at one. This will also have slow paced editing with suspenseful music and low key lighting which all create suspense for the audience. The iconography will be of the photos. As the victim picks up this photo, the camera goes into a close-up of it to show the audience what it is. The lighting will still be low key and the only iconography will be of the photo. Here, the suspenseful music will carry on as it creates tension for the audience. As this tells the victim that someone is after her, the camera goes into a mid shot again to show the antagonist hiding then grabbing the victim from behind. Again, low key lighting and iconography of the photos will be used whilst suspenseful music carries on in the background. Next, the camera shows the reaction shot of the victim with low key lighting. The only sound here is diegetic sound of the girl crying. The shot then fades out and fades in to a high angle of the victim laying in the corner of a dark room. The iconography here, is of the rope which she is tied up in and the lighting is low key. There is diegetic sound here of the victim breathing heavily as she wakes up.

The camera then zooms in to the victims face to do a close-up as she wakes up. This shot is silent with low key lighting. To show the kuleshov effect, the camera does a point of view shot of the antagonist stood with a knife. This shot will have contrapuntal sound of clown type music and low key lighting. To carry the kuleshov effect on, the next shot is of the victim screaming and crying after being stabbed. This will be a close-up and also a reaction shot. The sound will be suspenseful music and the lighting will still be low key. As the kuleshov effect keeps going, the next shot is a shallow focus of the antagonist holding the knife with blood on. The sound will then go back to the contrapuntal sound of clown type music. The iconography is of the knife and the lighting is still low key. From here, the camera goes into a mid shot which then zooms in on the victim laying dead on the floor with blood surrounding her. The lighting will then go from low key into high key to show that she is now dead. The sound here is of the clown laughing in the background and the iconography is of the blood. The final shot is a long shot of the antagonist walking off with the knife covered in blood to show he doesn't care about what he just did. This shot will be slow edited and there will be silence. The lighting will go back to low key and the only iconography here is of the knife covered in blood.

Conclusion

This has helped finalise our groups idea because we now know what we are going to film and where we need to go to do it. We also know what props we need to use in each scene so this helps us to be organised and stay prepared.