Group Storyboard - Miss Miller

The group storyboard shows our final plan for our film. We took ideas from all of our storyboards and used them to create one final storyboard that we would follow during filming. Under the drawing of each frame we described the micro elements and wrote a short description of the narrative.

We had all created our own individual storyboards but as we only needed one final design we took the best ideas from each storyboard. Charlie's storyboard was the most detailed so we based it on his version. An example of a shot we took from Charlie's storyboard is the over the shoulder shot which shows the antagonist hiding behind bushes and we see the victim move past. This was a good shot as it shows how the antagonist is hidden as well as his view of the victim and the audience infer that he has evil intentions. This makes the audience scared for the girl and they are on edge wondering what will happen next. This is conventional as thrillers often make the audience worry about an innocent female character before they inevitably get killed.

The sequence begins with an establishing shot of the entrance to the forest. This was from my storyboard and I included it due to what I learnt about establishing shots in my cinematography research and how they set the scene and inform the audience of where the scene is taking place. It ensures the audience aren't distracted as they wonder where the scene is taking place and they can just focus on the film. Another idea we added is a handheld shot of Cathryn walking through the forest on her phone. This was from Jess' storyboard and we decided to include it as it increases realism and shows the audience that Cathryn started off happy and oblivious and only started to panic later on in the scene when we see the antagonist hiding. A shot we all featured in our individual storyboards is a mid shot of the antagonist hiding in the bushes with a knife in his hand. We all decided it was good to add this as it shows the audience that the antagonist intends to cause harm and as they know Cathryn won't be able to defend herself they feel sympathise and are scared for her as she is presented as innocent so the audience want her to live. Shots like this are conventional to thriller films as they are good way to create a sudden sense of panic.

While planning the storyboard we took a lot of inspiration from the Scream films. The series is famous for it's use of female victims and antagonists with hidden identities. This inspiration is evident in out storyboard when we have the low angle shot of the antagonist where his face is hidden and he slowly reveals a knife.

I think our group storyboard is successful as we managed to get the best ideas from the three individual plans without any issues. Even though our individual plans were decent there was room for improvement and by working together we ended up with a much better plan that is even more conventional to the thriller genre.