Prelim Storyboard

Because of technical problems, it's taken me this long to completely finish my preliminary storyboard. This shows most of the shots we used within the preliminary task. The shots don't particularly vary, mainly being mid, or mid-long shots. This is because we had limited resources, not allowing us to use crane shots or similar, also, most simple dialogue scenes don't use a vast range of shots, mainly focusing on mid and mid long.

• Shot 1 This is our establishing shot, it is the long shot of the house where the scene takes place. In this shot Gavin walks up to the front door of the house.

• Shot 2 this is a Mid shot of Gavin as he unlocks the front door. We chose mid shot because he is using his hands whilst we need to see his surroundings.

• Shot 3 This is a mid shot of the door from the inside, in this shot we see Gavin open the door from the outside. This is a mid shot to match the previous shot of the outside

• Shot 4 This mid long shot shows Gavin walking through another door  into the scene where the dialogue will take place, Having Gavin walk through two separate doors builds a sense of secrecy about the situation.

• Shot 5 This mid long shot shows Gavin walking and beginning to sit down, we chose this because this is when we see Nadine for the first time and shows the environment she is in.

• Shot 6 This mid shot is part of our shot-reverse-shot in the conversation switching between this and the next shot. All dialogue is excluding the last line is exchanged in the shots 5, 6 and 7.

• Shot 7 This mid shot is part of our shot-reverse-shot in the conversation switching between this and the previous shot. The mid shots show the emotion on the two characters’ faces whilst seeing  some of their surroundings.

• Shot 8 This mid shot is part of our shot-reverse-shot in the conversation switching between this and the next shot. We use this towards the end of the scene, when we see the box as it gives you a better view of the table and box.

• Shot 9 we used this shot here to show the emotion on Gavin’s face as he is about to open the box, with the box just out of sight, to keep suspense.

• Shot 10 This high angle close up of the box allows you to see what is inside it as it gets opened in this shot. We zoom out rapidly, as the box gets pushed across the table, we did this to keep the box in shot. You can see from the still above, shots before and after the zoom I also wanted to zoom out to intimidate 'recalling in horror'.