Storyboard for Blind Corner

After we had done our storyboard we decided to watch a few more examples of opening sequence's. We soon discovered that our opening sequence was missing some vital conventions of a thriller and that it also was not going to be long enough. Therefore we decided that we should add some more scenes. We thought that a flashback scene would fit the opening sequence well, without changing all that we had already planned.

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Shot 8a: Camera moves into man, OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT of him looking at picture.
Shot 8b: Cuts to black and white flashback of Man walking down the street,
Shot 8c: Then stops at house looks at address of the house on a piece of paper.
Shot 8d: Walks up the the house down path. Stops at window and looks through window
Shot 8e: Then looks through letter box. Close up of mans eyes looking through letter box.
Shot 8f: end of flashback and folds picture over to look at Francesca.

The end product does not look exactly like the original plan and this is for many reasons, for example the watch scene just did not work when filming and we did not think it was needed. Therefore we cut it out of the original idea.
We also did not exactly do the spinning camera shot and this was because again it did not look very good, this was possibly because of the camera as it was technically built to do what we wanted it to. Therefore we changed it to the panning scene near the end.

We also did not add any timings or transitions into our original storyboard this was because we were not initially sure about what transitions we wanted. We did not write in any timings either as we did not know exactly how long each scene would be until we actually filmed it. We had rough ideas about transitions and timings and we made sure we were open to each others ideas about timings and transitions when editing and filming our opening sequence.

To go into the flashback scene we use a transition called 'ripple' this worked well as you did know that he was having a flashback. It looked professional.
For most of the other transitions we did a simple fade in shots and this was because we wanted it to be easy to watch, without many different transitions. These transitions made the film flow a little more.
At the end of the film we did a fade to a black screen, which we had originally planned to do. This was because we had watched many other thriller films and a fade to black worked very well as it made you jump! and was quite scary and got the audience more alert. We also thought this worked well with the end of our film as it created even more tension and mystery, as it made the audience wonder what was coming next.