Individual Storyboards (Georgiou)

Individual Storyboards

The storyboard above shows the first scene of my thriller narrative. The victim wakes up in a dark room with her hands and feet tied up. The iconography i am going to use ropes and duct tape. This is conventional because it will highlight to the audience that she is unable to move or call for help. This builds suspense for the audience. I am going to use low-key lighting as it will create shadows making the room seem creepy and mysterious and to make the audience question where the victim is. The camera shot i wanted to use was a close up on the victims hands and the rope and then it gradually zooms out revealing the rest of her body. I think this will be effective because when it zooms out the audience will be able to clearly see the victims facial expressions making them empathise for her. It also allows them to look at the costume and make up of the character. The victim will be wearing an item of white to connote that she is innocent and her make will show mascara on her cheeks for her crying. The costume and make is effective because they show the audience that she is the generic victim that is being held hostage. Once the victim wakes up the screen will dissolve into a flashback. This will then show what had happened to her the previous day. The victim and her two friends are walking to school when she receives a text message from an unknown number. The camera will be on a close up so the audience will be able to read what it said. The girl dismisses it and carries on walking to school. In the flashback scenes I want to use high key lighting to make it seem more realistic. It appears to the audience that it is just an ordinary day with ordinary people and they are less likely to suspect anything bad to happen in day light.  I decided that i wanted to use non-diegetic sound in these scenes as it will help surprise the audience with the text, shock them by the fact that they are being watched and it builds suspense as they don't know who it is or where the stalker is.



In this storyboard, the girls have finished at school and they are waiting outside the school for their friend (the victim). The victim doesn't turn up and the girls just assume she walked home early. It will then show the victim walking home when she receives another text message from an unknown number. The close up shot will show the audience what the message says surprising them. I am then going to do another camera shot but this time it will be a point of view of the stalker watching his victim.This is conventional because it shows a victim getting stalked creating suspense for the audience. I am going to use high key lighting so it looks like a normal day after school. In the scene that stalker will be wearing a black hoody with black gloves. This is conventional as the colour black connotes death. This gives the audience a sense of foreboding. The hoody is also conventional as it helps hide the identity of the stalker creating an enigma. I want to used non-diegetic sound as well as diegetic sound in this scene. The noise of the mobile phone will catch the audiences attention whereas the non-diegetic sound will help contribute to the shock and suspense of what is going to happen. In this scene i plan to use a number of different camera shots such as low angle, close up, zoom out to really show the effect of the stalker watching his victims.

This storyboard shows the scene where the two friends meet at a park to talk about their friend and her weird behaviour. The location of the park is conventional because it highlights the fact that that's where vulnerable children go to play during the day however at night no one is ever there making the isolated from a crowd. I am going to use low key lighting to suggest to the audience a passing of time from the beginning of the day to the evening. The two girls are sitting on the swings talking when in unison they both receive a text message from an unknown number. The diegetic sound will surprise and shock the audience as they wont suspect the friend to be watched by the stalker as well as the victim. The camera shot will be a close up on the message which says the stalker has kidnapped their friend and if they want to get her back they have to meet in a forest at a certain time. This is conventional because the use of iconography is used as a weapon. Once the girls go to the forest they are told to dig up a box that contains as key to the room that the victim is kept in. The low key lighting will help create strong shadows creating a creepy mysterious atmosphere.The iconography that will be used is going to be a key and a shovel. This is conventional as it could be seen as weapon the are leading them to their deaths.  Once the girls get the key they are texted an address. The address leads to an old warehouse and the key opens the door. They are confronted with their friend lying tied up on the floor in the dark. I am going to use a long shot showing the two girls untying her from the ropes. However when they attempt to run home they are stopped by the stalker. A close up will reveal the stalkers identity and the screen will fade to black. I will then use non- diegetic sound of three gun shots to highlight to the audience the death of the three girls. This is conventional because it shows a death of the innocent victims (typically females) and also because the iconography is a generic weapon used in thrillers to kill people. I will also super impose a soundtrack to help enhance the shock, surprise and suspense for the audience. The non-diegetic sound will be effective because it will constantly keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

As a group discussion we decided to use certain features of each of our individual narratives to make our final story-line.  From my individual narrative we are going to use the beginning section where the victim is kidnapped and held hostage in a dark room. We are going to stick with the iconography, music, lighting etc and use the flashback however, we are going to change what happens in the flashback and the reason the girl got kidnapped.