Animatic Storyboard

This animatic storyboard is essentially is a short animation that we created in iMovie. Our group produced this storyboard to give us more ideas on on what shots we should use in our opening sequence and how we should incorporate sound into our product in post-production. Creating this storyboard in iMovie was useful for various reasons; it allowed our group to get a better idea of how to work with iMovie, gave us a better idea of how long our opening sequence will be and helped us to determine which sounds would and wouldn't be appropriate in our opening sequence.

Storyboards

Casting

Characters of my Opening Sequence by zoeharris63 on GoAnimate

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Titles

Titles used in our opening product:

- New Wonder Productions
- Working Title Films
- Casting by Demi Proud, Megan Harris and Charlie Price
- Edited by Mike Adams
- Music by David Laws
- Produced by Ann Lee
- Directed by Nikola Busonovic

These are the titles that will appear in order for our horror opening sequence.

 These are a few ideas of the fonts of titles we are going to use. We are unsure as to now of what one will be using.

Post 9 - Characters Descriptions

Post 12 - Location permision

Post 7 - The Script

(Shots of previous messages between her and John)

Demi- I think its over there.
Megan- Are you serious?

(walks into the forest)

(the two girls are walking through the forest, many different sounds occur, quiet music is playing very quietly in the background. )

Demi- I think we're lost.
Megan- What do you mean we're lost?
Demi- look don't panic, you go that way and look for the warehouse, i'll stay here incase the boys come out and look for us.
Megan- Ok.

(Megan departs to the left of the forest looking for the boys, Demi stays in the same place trying to call for the boys)

Scream coming from Demi, Megan runs. Scream at the end from Megan.

Post 4 - Sound

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/snapping?p=1 - Horror Small Bone Or Finger Snap 003

This first sound is a sound of twigs snapping in trees. This sound is to resemble the killer guy character hiding and camouflaging into the trees behind the two girls so he cant be seen but so he lets the girls know that he's watching them. This sound is effective as it is very eerie and it brings up a lot of tension as we don't know who's in these bushes and we don't know why this killer is watching these two girls. Furthermore, the sound makes the audience believe that it can be anything meaning it could be animals in the bushes or just the wind, consequently bringing up the scary atmosphere as the audience don't know what's going and it gets them hooked to the screen as they want to know what happens next.

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/horror/ - Is it safe out

This second sound/piece of music is a very tense and atmospheric piece of music which allows just the music to bring up tension, nothing else. This would possibly be used at the beginning of the opening sequence as it indicates to the audience the type of film they are watching and they want to know what happens next. The climax that starts to increase in the piece of music is effective as the audience are expecting something to happen but they don't know what, which additionally gets them hooked to the screen as they are anxious to know what happens next and how the story is going to evolve.

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/scream?p=2 - Scream, High, Female

This last sound is of a female screaming. This sound clip would be very effective in our opening sequence as we can use the sound from a distance and not just from the girls actual scream and shooting it. We were planning to when my character collapses on the floor from her fatal heart attack we hear a scream in the background, she hears it slightly but cant do anything about it. This scream is really good its a very demanding scream so it wants the audience to hear it and wonder what's going on and what's going to happen to these 2 girls who have been suddenly screaming for their lives. Evidently, after this is where we see the close of demi's hand and the guy all in black walking away and you can either see his figure or his shadow.

Post 6 - Costume

Costume
The costumes we will be using is:

The two girls: The two girls will be wearing for the opening sequence will be wearing stereotypical teenager clothes meaning leggings, blazers, boots, jeans etc and winter coats to show the time of year and that it is in winter time. They would wear normal clothes to show the normality they are in from the beginning and show that the would be doing a normal thing. In their eyes they wouldn't expect the incident to happen. Additionally these normal clothes replicate that they are just innocent young teenagers who didn't realise they were doing something wrong, therefore contrasting with the killers clothes as the killer wore all black on purpose.
The guy/killer: The guy/killer would be wearing all black to show that he is a dark and bad character. Also it could show a type of camouflage as its being shot in the dark, the guy has a chance of hiding and making mysterious noises to haunt them and especially as it's dark they cant see him so its easier for him to catch them or come up to them. His clothes will blend in with the dark to show that he does not want to be seen.

Post 6 - Props

         Props

The props we will be using for our opening sequence will be 2 objects. These 2 objects are a phone & an asthma pump/an inhaler. We will be using a phone as that is the object that keeps Demi and the two guys connected, meaning thats the way they organised their date. In some of the shots in the opening sequence we will be showing the messages from Demi to the guy who she's meeting up with and we will show a shot of the phone with the message from the guy where he changes the location of where they had to go. This therefore shows the audience the change of scenery and how the theme of horror is starting to be shown in the opening sequence. Also we use the phone in the woods as well when the two girls split up and the Demi tries to call up John.