This is our storyboard. It isn't very clear in the picture so I will write what it says.
Box one: Film 4 logo, followed by text; Film 4 presents..., this has been hand written on a whiteboard , edited with red background, black writing 'bad film' filter put on.

Box two: videos of shadows and silhouettes. No particular story or order. ' bad film' over every clip.

Box three: an ACM production- same effects as film 4 presents... Followed by more shadows and silhouettes.

Box four: names of group. Each divided my shadow clips etc. same effect as other writing.

Box five: more shadows and then The Red Book at the end. Whispers saying the red book at the end. And whispers over other shadows quotes from Carl Jung.

Other details:
- all videos have ' fade in and out' transitions
- all non diegetic sound because of soundtrack
- all shots are MCUs, LS, or MS
- all writing has been edited with a red background

Here is a spider diagram full of our ideas.

Sequence Problems

We got our teacher find our 2 minute marker. So we was able to know how much more footage we needed.  We saw we still had about 40 seconds left to film so we went away and got lots of different videos. However we have recently discovered that the marker was actually put onto five minutes instead of two minutes, so we actually already had the right amount of footage. This meant we has to get rid of lots of videos and shorten our soundtrack, so it could fit.

Soundtrack Problems

We lost the main piano part in our soundtrack. When we looked on garage band, the piano sound had gone, and all that was there was a low drone sound. However it wasn't actually playing any sound. We couldn't find the piano part again, however after looking in the trash bin, we managed to find our old track we had first made which we was able to insert into out track and now have the piano part back. 

Order of title sequence- research

The Departed: 

-Initial Entertainment group

-Warner Bros

-Presents...

-Warner Bros in association with different production groups

-In Boston some years ago!

Narc:

-Paramount

-Lions gate films

-Splendid pictures

-In association with splendid pictures

-Director

-Production companies

-Distributors

-18 months later...

Shutter island:

-Paramount

-Paramount pictures presents

-In association with production groups

-Shutter island

-Boston

Mirrors:

-20th century fox

-Regency

-Production groups

-Director

-Main actor

-Mirrors

-Actors and actress

-Casting directors

-Costume designers

-Music

-Special effects

-Co producer

-Film editor

-Production designer

-Director of photography

-Ex producer

-Producers

-Screenplay

-Director

We looked at different fonts from different films, to see what other thrillers use. Here is some ideas we found. These are from Paranormal activity, sinister, seven, insidious, the woman in black and the sixth sense. These are all very similar fonts, even though they are plain, they are edited in such a way that it doesn't  matter that the font is plain.

The Godfather

The opening begins with a very slow jazz soundtrack, which is typical of thrillers. A plain black background, which connotes wealth, death, mystery, and evil, is contrasted with white writing, which has connotations of coldness, fear, reverence, and again, death. The writing simply says 'The Godfather' with puppet strings attached to the word 'father'. This symbolises the control that the godfather in the film has, and, as the audience will discover, how he controls people below him like a puppeteer controls his puppets.

The title disapears and the audience is left with a black screen, emphasising the connotations of the colour black, and also adding mystery and suspense - we don't know what will follow. A male voice-over begins in an italian accent with the line "I believe in America", suggesting where the film is set, and we fade in to see the man (Pacino) who is speaking. The camera begins with a close up as he talks to the camera and the camera zooms out very slowly whilst he tells us about his daughter's rape. This is a thriller signifier as we instantly know a web of crime and corruption will be involved in the narrative. The mise en scene at this point is all dark, with only the man's collar being the only colour of white, reflecting the title screen with white contrasting with black. As we zoom out, however, we discover with the technique of an over the shoulder shot, that the man is infact talking to someone else. The shot now reveals brown mise en scene - a wooden table, with a couple of papers on, making it seem to the audience like some kind of office. The camera stops zooming out, and Pacino begins to cry, and is given a drink by another man (presumably alcoholic) which shows the audience the flaws of the protagonist - his emotion for his daughter, and his drinking habit. This sequence also reveals that our first thought that there was only one person present was incorrect - there are at least three men present, but it is still unknown where this is set and who the men are. The camera then tracks to focus on a close up of the two men whispering to each other, but we are unable to hear what they say.

The Woman In Black

Woman in black opening scene

The opening scene in woman in black is very gloomy, and dark, there is also a lot of different camera angles. They are making the audience feel nervous, and anticipating the rest of the film.

At the start of the opening scene there is an extreme close up of a little pretending to tip tea into a cup and then a switch to another extreme close up of the girl giving it to the doll. As they are using teapots and cups and saucers, it gives the impression that the film is set in England as that is what country’s represent England with and also that’s where teapots are made, so it says to the audience that it is an English film set somewhere in England.

We also know that the film is trying to represent the time period, as we see that the dolls are very old fashioned and antique in our period of time, it shows that they are wanting the audience to go back to the 1930’s as all dolls are said to be antique if they are below the 1930’s. So this gives the impression to the audience that the film is going to be in the early 1930’s, late 1920’s. We can also tell from the clothing that the children are wearing that is set back in time too.

As the film has the extreme close up of the teapot and cup, the music is very low, slow motioned and has a very funeral sound to it because of the bells, its gives the effect to the audience that it is going to be a film about death, so we get to know that the film is a in the horror/thriller genre. We also get a mid-shot of the three girls turning around and staring at nothing, this gives the effect to the audience that there is also going to be so paranormal features within the film, such as ghosts, as the girls once they’ve stared at nothing, look at the window start walking and crushing their dolls on the way, which tells the audience that it has a very hypnotic sense of genre to it too as they walk out of the window.

When the girls stare at nothing we can tell that there’s a ghost there, which tells the audience that there’s an evil entity present. As the girls have been put in a type of hypnotic state to kill themselves, it makes the audience feel sorry for the children, and make you go against the ghost which makes the audience think of the ghost as the antagonist. It’s the bandit of the film because the entity makes the girls kill themselves; this tells the audience that the ghost is going to go around killing people for some sort of reason that will be shown later on in the film.

For our soundtrack we have decided on a low drone sounds. However at the same time we decided on a piano piece which makes the audience feel uneasy. The soundtrack plays quietly so the focus is on the screen. This is then only sound heard however. Right at the end we have a scream like sound which makes the audience jump as they don't know it is coming.

We decided to use lots of different shadows. We used to low key lighting. We used different angles to make the sequence more disorientating. We tried to film shadows showing crime to connect to the ideas of Karl Jung about shadows. Below is some example of images similar to shots we have taken.