Storyboard

1. Establishing Shot, Sarah walking down the street, talking on phone.


Walks towards camera, puts phone away.


3. Turns corner in medium shot.


4. Match on action with previous, extreme long shot.


5. Sid enters scene, walks round corner, still extreme long shot.


6. Zooms in to medium long shot, Sid grab Sarah.


7. Continued medium long shot, fade out to black.


8. New scene, medium shot of Sarah.


9. Pans down and zooms, focusing on Sarah's focus.


10. Over the shoulder shot, Sarah dials 999.


11. Back to medium shot, dialogue.


12. Zooms to close up, continued dialogue.


13. medium close up from side, continued dialogue.


14. Medium close up to front, end of dialogue, Sarah hangs up phone.


15. Zooms out to medium shot, Sarah wraps arms around legs and pulls them in towards her.


16. Flashback to first scene.


17. Medium close up showing Sarah's reaction to flashback.


18. Flashback repeats.


19. Medium shot, Sarah lies down and curls up.


20. New scene. Establishing medium shot showing Sarah opening a letter and starting to read.


21. Extreme close up of letter- eyeline match.


22. Low angle shot, powerlessness, continued reading of letter.


23. Back to initial medium shot as Sarah screws up letter, throws it, and slumps.


24. New scene. Extreme longshot showing Sarah.


25. POV of Sarah, filter to show POV and that something is out of the ordinary.


26. Long shot of stranger walking towards Sarah.


27. Sarah's perception of stranger.


28. Shot of stranger walking forward, fades into shot 29.


29. Sarah's POV, morphed from shot 28, showing difference of perception. Sarah runs toward "Sid".


30. Long shot as Sarah hits stranger.


31. Sarah POV of hitting "Sid".


32. Long shot as stranger falls to ground.


33. Sarah POV of "Sid" falling to ground.


34. Long shot of Sarah strangling stranger.


35. Close up POV of Sarah strangling "Sid".


36. POV of "Sid" dead, fades into shot 37.


37. "Sane" POV of stranger dead.


38. Long shot as Sarah slumps to ground and screams.


39. New scene. Medium long shot of Sarah, dressed in white, rocking on a bed.


40. Shot from behind, medium close up.


41. Low angle shot, Sarah still rocking.



42. Moves to shot of Sarah and door. Door opens, doctor enters. Dialogue, Sarah leaves, scene ends.

Film Poster Research

There are two main types of film posters: films that tell you about the movie and posters that tell you about a specific character. Most films tend to have some of each, mainly for marketing purposes. An example is the film Inglourious. They have a film poster which features all of the principal characters and the film's tagline, like so:

Then they have individual character posters of all the characters, so people can pick their favourite character and choose them:

Another example is Batman: The Dark Knight. This again, has a film poster for general release with the tagline, as well as character posters with individual taglines:

There are also several websites on the internet that have many film posters in them. An example is filmsite.org, a site which features many "classic and vintage film posters". Their site features links to another site, allposters.com, which sells over 18,000 film posters.

It's obvious that film posters are vitally important to a film. They advertise to the general public, as well as providing a way for people to take a part of the cinema experience home with them.

As such, it's very important that we get our film poster right, specifically with the mood of the poster. The theme of the film needs to be subtle given the delicate nature of the product, and this needs to be reflected in the poster.

The poster from the film we researched, The Accused, does this. The poster belies tiny hints as to the nature of the film, without going into too much detail. However, it also seems a little lacking in some way. For our own poster, it would be good to match the sensitivity of this poster while improving on it's weaknesses.

Audience Feedback

In order to ensure that our film is the best it can be, the group needs to obtain some audience feedback from a variety of our peers before the film is completely finished. Previously, we have already used a questionnaire as a method of receiving feedback, so this time it will have to be done differently. One possibility is to allow people to watch the film then record their comments via a zoom recorder. Another way is to film people's reactions and comments to the film. We could also post the product onto a website such as Youtube and ask people for comments on what could be done to improve the film.
Personally, I think that posting the product online will acheive the best feedback, as it will fetch a greater variation of people in comparison the the other two methods. Recording people and their reactions is limited, due to the fact that we can only record people nearby, primarily other college students. Posting online and asking for comments will enable people from all walks of life and of all ages to view the product and comment honestly, giving a variety of opinions and ideas with which we can work on the product to aceive the final draft.