Stage 3 of Final Project/ Storyboarding

 This is the third step to the completion of my portfolio.

This will mostly focus on the preproduction of our opening scene. This will include the location, storyboarding, casting actors, writing a shooting schedule, and planning the look and feel of the opening scene.

Let's start off with the location!

Our group has decided the locations where our opening scene will be shot. Some of the shots will be shot outside while some will be inside. We plan on using the locations in our school to shoot. Although, some shots may need to be filmed outside of school. We plan on shooting our first scene outside, using the school parking lot next to a police car. All other shots and scenes will be filmed inside. Whether that is inside the school or not. We have also decided to use buildings and streets to be our establishing shot.

  

                                         

Actors?!

Well, we do plan on having one of our group members be the "dead girl". We also plan on asking our other friends and classmates to imitate a cop. We will defiantly have to consider how we are going to use the school parking lot to become a realistic crime scene. 

The look of our scenes. How will we achieve it?

As a group we have decided to make some "fake" blood and put it on the "dead girl's" body. We can also imitate this as wound stains. This will make the scene look more realistic. We are also using an app that we can use to create the "fake" messages between the characters. This app also allows us to send real images. Making our conversations look real.

Sound!?

Our film is a mystery. In the opening scene, I defiantly want there to be suspense. We will achieve this by adding high pitch noises and eerie sounds. And because part of it will be a crime scene, we plan to add police siren sounds to show that there are polices at the scene. Lastly, we plan on using a camera shutter sound to imitate the police/detectives taking pictures of the "dead body".

Here are some examples:

                                   

                                                   

As of right now, we do not plan on recording any of our sounds. Although, if our group can not find a sound to work with, we will have to improvise and make our own. For the walking and breathing sounds, we might have to record those. We will record them on camera. 

For our storyboards, we are using a website called Studio binder. I have used this for my Christmas Music Video. 

As of right now, as a group, we have 2 weeks to film. We might need the whole two weeks because some of our filming takes place outside of school. We plan on getting as much done as we can at school with those indeed shots. And try and work around our schedules at home to fit in those other shots.

To begin shooting, we will need our phones. This is the key component of our film. We will use it as a prop and as a recorder. We will also need our computers to try out different background sounds to see which one fits with each scene before we get into the editing process. 


                       

I will add my storyboard once completed!

I tried to use similar images to what we envisioned and want to replicate. I tried to keep in mind the time span that we have to work with. As a group, we split up the shots. There were a total of 13 shots, with three of us. I took shots five-nine. While my group members took one-four and ten-thirteen. We worked on this together and it got done a lot more efficient. 

Sources: Group members, shot-by-shot description, and storyboard.