Individual storyboard - Miss Miller

The purpose of using a storyboard in film planning is to help the people producing the film to roughly plan out what they want a specific scene to go. This is done so that they know what the scene might look like and helps them to change things to make the scene more conventional to the audience in order to engage them. The reason the group and I have create individual posts and not one combined one is because, we hope that we can gather the storyboards and select the best parts of all three of our work. We have decided to do this because we think that it will make the opening sequence as conventional as possible because it will be the best of all of our storyboards. We chose to plan an individual storyboard before the group one because we wanted everyone to state their ideas so that we can try to implement the best ones. Therefore making the best possible opening sequence out of the three ideas.

In the first page of this storyboard the antagonist is getting ready and has a flashback when he sees the picture of him slipping in a note in her bag anonymously.

On the second page of the storyboard, the antagonist comes back into reality, picks up a knife and begins to walk outside the house, intending to kill his victim.

On the third page of my storyboard, the victim walks into the alleyway and stumbles across her picture on the wall. The antagonist then jumps out at the victim.

On the fourth page of my storyboard, the antagonist begins to slowly choke the victim, ensuring that she passes out and doesn't die. In order to keep her hostage in a dark room.







Lastly, on the last page of my storyboard, the victim wakes up in a dark room and finds the antagonist scraping his knife along the wall in order to scare her. Then the antagonist kills her, however the audience do not see this creating a kuleshov effect.


I have decided to include a reaction shot, this is evident when the audience see on page 4, the female victim's facial expression is being shown to the audience because of the previous shot where the antagonist is about to kill her. This creates suspense because the audience are unsure on whether the female victim will survive or not. I have also included low key lighting in the dark room scene, where the victim is struggling to escape from the chair she is tied to. I chose to use low key lighting here because it keeps the antagonist hidden while also the darkness mirrors the antagonists personality. This creates tension because the audience are waiting to see what sinister thing the antagonist might inflict upon the victim. Finally, I have decided to include silence, this is evident when the suspenseful music slowly turns into silence while the female victim is being choked. This is to symbolise her life, as the music quietens, her life slowly ends. This is effective because it helps the audience to build a relationship with the female victim as they worry for her safety. Some of my inspirations come from other previous posts, such as the silence that I have included in my opening sequence was based off scream 2 when silence is used at the start of the scene as the audience see the female victim brutally stabbed to death. I plan that the audience will feel shocked and surprised while watching my opening sequence as there will be many conventional elements implemented in order to engage the audience. We will need to incorporate all of our ideas equally in order for all of us to achieve a high grade as a group, I hope that the group decides to use my idea of the silence mirroring her life as I think it is very conventional, which will easily help engage the audience.

Overall, I think that my storyboard is good enough for the group to analyse and pick out what specific scenes they like best, however I think that I should work harder on making my description more detailed so that my group can fully understand what my scene presents. I will remove this however, by explaining the scene myself while the group analyse it instead of just them reading it as I can then fully explain what I mean and can show them my hidden meanings. This task has helped me a lot as it has saved the group and I a lot of time as we already know what we will be doing for each scene. It also helped us in terms of making it conventional because drawing it out helped us realise what we needed to add to make it more entertaining.