Purpose of story board- Miss Miller

                                        Purpose of a story board

Story boards are scene clips in drawings with a description of the scene which includes audio and camera angles.They are in series to show what happens in the scene and help understand how the scene will look. It is drawn for many reasons such as to show other people the idea, how the final product will look and see any faults that could happen and this will save money.

My first slide is 15 seconds long and shows a car going through a darkened forest.The sounds in the background would be the car engine and some slow background music in the background.Along the way we have camera angles from alongside the road.

The seconds slide is 8 seconds long.It shows the woman parking up then going to get out the car but something runs across in her wing mirror and she starts to panic.In this scene the lighting is from a distant street lamp and is very low key.Then she sees a figure come into place with a knife still in shadow.The sounds are from the car engine and the buzzing from the street lamp.

Frame 3 is when the woman has got out the car starts to walk quickly then start to run as the man starts to advance with the knife. The iconography in this scene is a knife and a mask for the killer. The sound in this scene is a car alarm going off then getting lower and lower in volume.The setting for this is the begging of the forest and part of the car park.

Frame 4 is 20 seconds long and is simple a chase through the forest with various scenes such as POV and tracking.The lighting is very low key with many shadows around the area of the forest.The sound is rustling  and wind through the branches.The editing is fast as it makes the chase scene feel more real and keeps it going.

Frame 5 is 8 seconds long and we can see that the killer is now closing in on the victim. The music is fast paced chase music as it makes it more exciting for the audience.The editing is also fast so now the audience knows that something is going to happen.The sounds is the wind and forest noises and a distant car alarm.The lighting is becoming darker and darker over time.

Frame 6  is only 4 seconds long and  is very short.It is just the victim turning around looking at the murder who is chasing her with things the same as the previous board.

Frame 7 starts with the victim still looking at the murder but the turns around and runs into a tree, falling over and knocking herself out in the process.This is a straight cut to the knocking out scene and the scene slows down to show this.

Frame 8 is 3 seconds long and shows the murderer leaning over her with a knife in his hand and has his smiling mask on.There is no noise and everything is silent around and the scene is darker than the previous scene.

Frame 9 is the camera looking up with the screaming coming from the victim and we are looking at the tops of the trees.

Frame ten is when the camera darkens and we can just hear the victim moaning in the distance.

Overall story boards are very useful tools and can save time and effort.Also you can see problems before they happen as if they happened on set it would be very inconvenient. Also our storyboard helped us finalise our narrative.

We have taken our ideas from different people in our group.The original forest idea came from Beau's storyboard which is quite stereotypical, the car idea and the car park came from me from my own story board and the killer being masked and with a knife came from Michelle ideas so overall we have used a wide variety of ideas from a range of people.Finally an idea came from Wailum that we should have no speech in it as it simplifies the whole process.