INITIAL IDEAS OF THE GROUP

Points to consider:
- Must convey thriller conventions, these are:

* A crime at the core of the narrative
*False paths, clues and resoulutions
* A narrative pattern that the viewer expects to be resolved
* A protaganist who is dis-empowered and drawn into a complex web of intrgue by the antagonist
* Extraordinary events happening in ordinary situations
* Themes of voyeurism, Identity and mirroring
* a Protaganist with a flaw
* A scene (usually at the end) where the protagonist is in peril
* Mis En Scene which echoes/ mirrors the antagonists plight.

It must use micro elements to back up the above points.

The sequence must not give away too much, and be left at a cliffhanging point where the viewer is in question.

Before the group came to a final descision of the final storyboard we came up with a few ideas by ourselves. We all come up with out own individual thriller ideas and spoke and discussed them with each other. we wernt going to say which one was the best/worst but we wanted to give good points as well as room for improvement on each others ideas. We decided to take some of the good points out of each others ideas and try and mould them into one which would be the final sequence.


The setting is in a park. There is a character who is swinging on the swing. the shot is a long shot and the character appears to be being watched through the bushes. the character is unaware of this. The person on the swing is singing, but we can also hear some heavy breathing coming from this unknown character. The camera is very shaky because the unknown character is moving getting all views and angles from the person on the swing. Suddenly, the camera begins to move faster towards the other person. The camera is coming from behind and a harsh sound is played as it is moving faster. The person on the swing turns around and gasps. The camera goes black and all we see is a dark screen. A loud bang is played and we go back to the place in the bushes from where the unknown character was before. The camera zooms in to the main scene but there is no person there, just a swinging swing. A man comes along and picks up a watch which was laying on the floor under the swing. We don't know who he is. is he something to do with this missing person? By Jodie


For my first initial ideas for my story board I had based my ideas on `panic room’. The ideas I got from this helped me make my story board. In my first shot in my story board, we are based in the busy city of Cambridge taking a bird’s eye view of the land marks in Cambridge. To create a feeling that something is going to happen but you don’t know what. Then for my next’s shot we take a closer shot down into the city moving the camera around the traffic to show a busy city centre after we close in to the next shot we take the camera slowly down to the busy crowded center in the middle of the high street. As the camera moves in slowly we make the crows of people around, go faster and faster moving in and out of shops and people talking and chatting to one another, then the camera start the focus on one individual that looks out of place in the high street. The camera zooms in quickly and then everything goes silent and everyone around going slowly and the person standing there, start to panic, by using the camera to close in on the body language of the person. Then as the person starts to really panic the camera starts to move away faster and faster and the person starts to fades back into the crow, like the flim it rewinding and all you have left of the last shot is the same shot and the begin when the sun starts to come out at the start of the day. By Charlotte


My initial idea was based on a person that dissapears it is called "Erased"
Shot one is a view of a computer, there is lots of writing on the computer, and it is slowly getting erased.
Shot two the camera zooms into the computer screen , and it focuses on someones name getting erased slowly.
Shot three is a person walking down a corridor backwards, and they slowly dissapear.
Shot four the person is waiting at the bus stop and they are on there own, and the bus drives past really quickly and the person has gone.
Shot five someone is crossing out specific words in a book, like names adresses, personal information.
Shot six, some food is let to slowly to rot but it shows the stages of the roting food, to show that the person has been mising for ages.
Shot seven they are at a park and there is a swing and there is a person just swinging on it and then the person dissapears so the swing is still swinging on its own.
Shot eight there is a rocking horse at the playground just moving on its own.
Shot nine there is a roundabout at the park just turning round slowly on its own.
Shot ten there is a helathy bunch of flowers and they slowly rot like the food, to show that there has been alot of time that has passed.
Shot eleven there is a photo of a happy family, and the it zooms into one person and that person slowly fades, leaving one less member of the family.
Shot thirteen the persons post is all on the floor piled up over loads of months.
Shot fourteen the camera zooms into the letterbox, and goes through the letterbox.
Shot fifteen the camera has gone through the letterbox to reveal the title "Erased" By Fern
*We really liked this idea and after discussing everything we decided to develop the ideas and use for our final cut*


Focuses on random objects, in a murderers house and tells the viewer of his psychological state of mind, and shows personal things close to him. The music builds up instant tension, and links with the fact that something isn't right in the house. We do not meet the murderer in the opening scene, but in a few shots we see his shadow and in one shot a slow movement of his hand reaching for a camera. Fast shots, the shots get faster and hit a climax, where a key object is portrayed, with the murderers shadow hovering over it. Throughout the opening scene, random words appear on the screen, which also relate to the murders, and will engage the audience with curiosity. By Laura