11th March 2010 - Story boarding

Last lesson I, and my partners, Chris and Calum, decided that our major coursework task would be a video task.

This lesson we began to storyboard a 3 minute prologue to a Zombie horror-thriller film. Although the specification says that it should only be 2 minutes lomg, since we are working in a trio we decided it was best to make it longer to reflect all of our inputs.

We each drew and annotated 5 shots of a storyboard, though our creative input was the same throughout the story.

The storyline consists of a young blonde woman running through a graveyard, street, and up a dark lane to a house with a big front door. She is obviously running from something. Upon banging on the door, it opens of its' own accord and she walks inside, the door closing behind her. All she can see is a shadowy figure by candle light; the candle blows and the shadowy figure has gone by the time the flame is back to full strength. She walks up the stairs to find a silent, barely visible girl holding a teddy bear. The woman tried asking her for help, but the girl remains silent until she screams and the woman is dragged down the stairs from behind, presumably by the shadowy  figure. Cut to black, and her screams continue to echo.
The film begins with a team called 'Team Bravo' entering the house looking for survivors with a camera. One sees the woman from earlier in a room rocking backwards and forwards, but she lunges at the camera viciously. Cut to black with her roars continuing to echo, and fade in the title, which is as of yet undecided.

In order to gain as many marks as possible, need to use as many generic conventions as possible, and in this case, creating tension is key. In the Zombie-thriller/Horror convention, hiding the enemy as much as possible creates and builds fear in the audience. Using darkness and very fast-paced editing are also very useful.

More later.