Group storybord- Miss Miller

Through out my blogg i will be evaluating our combined group storyboard where we pulled together our groups best ideas in editing, camera angles, and sound etc. to create a storyboard that works best to achieve the desired effects of tension, fear and mystery, all common conventions of thriller films.

Daniels idea, the use of a long shot to introduce the victim as well as the antagonist (Frame 2), was chosen as it creates a sense of isolation, with the background being empty and nobody around, the victiem feels as though she is alone and vulnerable. The theme of isolation was a popular one throughout our questioner so we though it be essential to incorporate into our thriller film to attract the target audience.The essence of sympathy that the audience in tern feel for the victim's vulnerability helps to create and build a relationship with the character involved, increasing the tension as the viewers view the film as more reality and they don't want the victim to die. Vulnerability is important if not essential to convey in our thriller opening as it is a common thriller conventional that we thought again is necessary to incorporate somewhere in our thriller opening.

A variety of my individual thriller storyboard ideas where used in the group storyboard. One more circumstantially being the P.O.V from the stalker (frame 8), inspired from the original 'Halloween' film. As it creates a sense of realism and tension as the stalker is watching our victims every move. Again this shot makes our victim appear more vunerable but also conforms to the generic thriller convention of hidden identity which we want to maintain throughout our thriller opening, this is used effectively in many thriller films including 'Friday the 13th', 'Halloween' and 'Scream' as it creates a enigma as the audience keep guessing who they believe to be the thriller throughout the film.

The clever use of a group story board allowed us to visualise our ideas more easily and spilt up our narrative ideas. Making the distribution of different miss-en-scene elements in our thriller opening allot more easier. Allow us to imagine where elements such as lighting, particularly in the form of low key lighting, to be used to create our groups desired effects of tension.

The construction of our group story board has no doubt made our filming much more easer as we as a group are all on the same mind frame of what sort of shots we are looking to achieve and the effects that these shots will create. Making filming our opening go hopefully much more smoothly and quickly leaving more time for editing and possibly going back and re doing or filming different shots to make our opening of a better quality. However with there being so many ideas available to choose from amongst all group members we where unable to include them all into our group storyboard meaning we  missed out on some potentially effective ideas. Although taking everything into account i would argue that our group storyboard was a huge sucsess and we will be able to do the best with the ideas we have chosen.