Story board

As part of making our opening sequence we have to create a story board. This is not our final idea but something i thought would make a good opening sequence. This story board is an opening sequence to a horror film although it make not be your typical start. In this story board a girl is leaving her house to go out for a run (for exercise) with her friend in the woods. But ends up waiting for her friend and tries texting her so walks more deeper into the woods to see if her friend was there. But falls over a stick and comes across and shoe dug in the ground and later discovers a hand dug into the ground. She falls backwards out of shock and gets up and starts running towards home.

The long shot of the house is so that the audience know it is just a normal house on a average road. I have chosen not to have any noise so that the audience would feel unsure and create enigma as to why there is just a house. I would also start the opening sequence in the day time because the audience would least expect anything to happen.
Then a girl comes on still taken as a long shot so the audience can recognize that she is coming out of the same house that was just shown. She also shouts to her mother "Bye mum will be back in half hour" this is also to connote that she lives at home with her mother just like normal.
She then starts running down the road this would also be a long shot to show that the woods are not that far from her house and make the audience feel like it is a regular thing that she does. I would also have her music from her earphones playing to signify what she is listening to was a happy song rather then a low pitch song which on a horror film you would expect.
Long shot from the girl behind running. I would do this so that the audience can also see whats in front of the girl and do not suspect that any thing is going to happen yet.
I have chosen to do the next shot as a mid shot as i would want the audience to recognize that she is looking around and wondering where her friend was. By this point the girl is no longer listening to music i have done this so the audience might expect something to happen and create enigma.

Then she trips over a stick i have done this so that the audience also recognize that it is just a stick that she has tripped over.
But then she sees a shoe sticking out of the mud. This would create enigma for the audience this shoes would also be a child's shoe (5-10).
She later then finds that there is also a child's hand dug under the ground. She then falls back and when she falls back it is a close up of her so that audience can detect that she is in shock and worried. I have then chosen a long shot to signify that she is now out of the woods and back on her road.
Though out these 5 shots i will have no music just natural back ground noise to create tension for the audience.

By Chelsie.