My Story Board

This is my story board, we created this to help us decide what happens in our opening sequence of our film. This story board will also help us film the opening because it will save us time, we will know what we are doing and not guessing what shot to do next. Consequently if we save time on our film we will have more time to spend on our blogs adding details.

When we created by working together, we started by bouncing ideas off each other and making notes on what we wanted to happen. Once we had decided what we wanted to happen we stared to draw up ideas using a variety of shots to create different moods and emotions, after each shot we wrote what shot it was and specific details about it like the music behind it and what was happening in it. this will definitely help us create our final film.



story board 1 from Luke Samson-Hill on Vimeo.

1. Shot 1 is the production shot, there is no dialogue and there is no camera movement. The shot fades out into darkness then the next shot appears.
2. Shot 2 is a close up of "Doyle", he is looking past the camera and off into the distance.
3. Shot 3 is still off "Doyle" but it is a mid shot and a freeze frame of him. The shot will freeze and the name "Doyle" will appear.
4. Shot 4 Is a change of scene, it is an establishing shot. It shows a group of lads all sat around drinking and smoking inside a house, the camera is still.
5. Shot 5 is a two shot, it show two people drinking and chatting to each other, it is a still camera shot.
6. Shot 6 is introducing another main character, "Murph". This shot is a close and a freeze frame, it come up with the name "Murph" so that we know who he is. This shot is of him drinking a shot of spirits.
7. Shot 7 show "Murph" slamming the shot glass onto the table after he has drank the shot. The emphasis of this shot is on his hand and the shot glass.
8. Shot 8 shows "Murph" after  he has done the shot, this hot is a close up.
9. Shot 9 is a change of scene, it shows "Doyle" and a drug dealer walking towards each other, it a long shot and there is no camera movement.
10. Shot 10 is a close up of their hands as they exchange money and drugs, this is a still shot with no camera movement.
11. Shot 11 is the same shot as shot 9 except instead of walking towards each other, they are walking away after they have done the drug deal. This shot is a long shot with no camera movement.
12. Shot 12 shows "Doyles" mates standing around chatting and having a laugh, this shot is a long shot with 3 characters. This is a still shot with no camera movement.
13. Shot 13 is a over the shoulder shot of one of "Doyles" mates talking to him.
14. Shot 14 is of "Doyle" greeting and saying hi to all of his mates, this is long shot.
15. Shot 15 is of "Doyle" say "lets go", this intrigues the audience on where they are going and what is going to happen. This is a close up with no camera movement.
16. Shot 16 is of all of them walking off, this is a long shot of them walking away purposefully and at a fast pace.
17. Shot 17 goes back to "Murph" and all of his friends drinking in the house, " Murph" say "lets go!", this intrigues the viewer further because you want to know whats going to happen. This shot is a long shot showing the group of friends.
18. Shot 18 shows the two groups of friends walking towards each other shouting abuse. This is an establishing shot and an extreme long shot. By this point the viewer has a rough idea what is going to happen.
19. Shot 19 is a closer shot of the two groups, they are still shouting at each other and swearing at each other. It is very obvious that they are from two different crews and that they don't like each other. This is a long shot, it is a still shot with no camera movement.
20. Shot 20 is an over the shoulder shot looking at "Murph" and his gang. You can see all the people in the background. 
21. Shot 21 is an over the shoulder shot looking at "Doyle" and his gang. You can see all the people the background still shouting and swearing at each other.
22. Shot 22 is of "Murph" and "Doyle" walking towards each other and squaring up to each other. This shot is a long shot.
23. Shot 23 is a close up of the two guys squaring up to each other, "Doyle" throws  punch an "Murph" and the screen goes blank when he makes contact.
24. Shot 24 is a black screen, but you can still hear the shouting of the two gangs in the background, the shouting gets louder once the first punch was thrown.
25. Shot 25 is still a black screen but the words "Two Weeks Earlier..." fade in, the words are in bold print and they are white so that they contrast with the background.
26. Shot 26 is the title shot, we haven't yet decided what our film will be called so that is why it doesn't say in our story board.

We have chosen to have music all the way through to show that it is only the opening of the film and to emphasise the introduction of the main characters and the clues of the plot lines. The music will rise and fall in volume in different part of the opening but will stay roughly the same volume all the way through. We have chosen to use the song "Kano - Ps and Qs" because it fits with the codes and conventions of the genre and id also a song that you would expect the characters in the film to listen to.