Group storyboard - Miss Miller

The point of a group story board is to have a final plan of shots to follow when filming. It is used to describe each shots micro elements and other asset like actors and description, this makes it easier to know how the film is going to look with all the shots put together. Each member of my group made a individual story board of how we pictured the opening sequence looking. We then took our separate ideas and merged them together taking the best assets to make our group storyboard. We went through each one deciding on what was most effective for a thriller film and what wasn't to important to include, from this we joined the parts we preferred together make the group storyboard best of the three individual ones.


We created a group storyboard so that the layout of our opening sequence is a joint effort incorporating everyone's ideas, advantages and disadvantages to make it the best it can be. An example of an advantage from one of our storyboards is an over the shoulder shot from Charlie's individual work. This was inspired by the research we did in class from a "Shutter Island" clip. We have picked this to be in our group idea because we thought it worked well with the other shots in the scene and follows good conventions for a thriller. The over should shot used was looking past the antagonist at Cathryn. It is effective because it shows the antagonist is targeting her it make it clear to the audience so that they can understand the intentions of him. This shot builds suspense because it is clear our victim is being watch and in possible danger.


Another idea we thought would be good to have was the handheld of Cathryn walking with her phone. This shot was from my individual storyboard and we chose it because is was effective for the audience as they could relate and react to the characters actions and situation. This shot was an inspiration from the research I did into "Mama" there was a lot of hand held work in the film which I thought added to the emotions. I have used this on our victim because it emphasises on her instability and weakness over the other character in the film. It is effective because the audience can relate to this and expect something bad to happen to her. This also show that it is conventional because the audience expect to see her get hurt or expect her to be target by the antagonist.


We also got some other ideas from Ryans individual storyboard, one was the establishing shot he used at the beginning of his storyboard he has an establishing shot of the forest. We decided this shot would set the feel for whole film, showing the mystery from the low key lighting and isolation of the forest. This is effective because the audience become immediately intrigued into what the film is about and why it is set in a forest. The establishing shot show all the conventional assets of our film before any characters are involved giving of an enigma for the audience making them want to continue watching.


Each shot we chose to use is picked because it adds to our narrative, the group story board will have different shots to create different emotions and meanings. Each shot will be incorporated together to make the film runs smoothly, they will be made to fit in with everyone's ideas.




I think our group storyboard went well, we included as many of eachothers ideas as possible. We analysed each individual storyboard to make sure we used the best assets from each one. The end result was extremely good it included everything we needed to know about each shot and also had them in a good order. We did have to make a few changes to some of the shots because they didn't look as good when actually trying to perform them for example the establishing shot couldn't be a high angle because we didn't have the equipment need to make the shot, in stead we have to do a low angle looking up at the forest because it was easier to film. If we had the chance to do the storyboard again I would the duration of some of the shots and also some of the cinematography assets of the shot to the frames more effective and conventional.