Storyboard - The Deep End

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This is the new plot for our film opening 'The Deep End'.

Costumes:

The pool boy (victim) will be wearing swimming shorts, a light coloured polo shirt and will be bare foot.
The murderer will be dressed in black so they look hidden and mysterious, so it looks like the murderer has actually planned the murder.

Props:

The pool boy will be cleaning the pool.

The pool boy will have head phones in so they can listen to music whilst they work.

Crime Thriller Research

Criminal Minds

Scary music

No talking

Quick camera cuts

Lots of close-ups

Time shown

Camera follows the person that will die

Sudden death

Every one looks at the man suspiciously

Midsomer Murders

Lots of close-ups

Death in real life is in time with the TV

Didn’t know

Saw 1

Really dark

Loud shouting

Confusion

Se7en

Dark

Tie being done up

Dead body face down

Blood everywhere

The Equalizer

Dark

Phone call

Weapons

Scary, dramatic music

Lights suddenly turn off

Quick cuts

Slow moving camera (tracking shots or pans)

Everything goes silent before a loud scream/noise

Genius ways of killing people

Lots of walking round corner and then death

Horror Film Opening

Buscombe's Theory

Buscombe’s theory states that one genre is different from another because of the icons we associate with that genre, the physical objects or the symbols we can see on the screen.

There are four elements which helps us identify and understand the genre, Location, Appearance, Tools and Miscellaneous.

• Horror: dark, spooky music, trees with no leaves, weapons (knifes/guns)
• Crime Drama: dead body, weapon, suspenseful music, science lab
• Science-Fiction: futuristic gadgets, space, aliens, tight lycra suits
• Romance: red and white, flowers, soft music, warm fires, chocolates
• Comedy: group of lads, road trip, good friendships

Barthes Code

Barthes Codes	Meaning	Examples in Jeepers Creepers
Enigma/Hermeutic	·       Creates a mystery within a text. ·      Makes the audiences want to know more. ·      If an Enigma ends unanswered it can frustrate the audience and makes them think deeply about the film.	·      All the crows land on one scarecrow as if they chose that one in particular. ·      Close-up of a dog getting up, running towards the field and barking growling at something. The audience wants to know what the dog is barking at.
Proairetic/Action	·       Sequential elements of action. ·      Adds suspense to the text	·      Scarecrows get put up in tall corn/maize field. ·      The crows land on one scarecrow. ·      The dog barks towards the field. ·      Crows fly off and non-diegetic music starts. ·      Kid walks towards the scarecrow thinking it’s odd. ·      The dog barks again. ·      The scarecrows foot moves. ·      Kid pauses before turning and running away. ·      Scarecrow jumps and flies after the boy. ·      The scarecrow lands on the boy. ·      Hear screams as the camera pans across the crops.
Semantic	·      Creates additional meanings. ·      Called ‘Semes’. ·      Uses the extra layers of meanings.	·      Scarecrows are associated with Halloween so they are seen as scary, spooky and haunted.
Symbolic	·      Exercises opposites showing contrast and greater meaning, creating tension, drama and character development.	·      Small young boy and a dirty old scarecrow are very different. ·      Boy murmurs that the scarecrows aren’t working anyway and then the crows all fly away as they’re scared.
Referential	·      Refers to anything that refers to an external body of knowledge. ·      Usually scientific, historical or cultural, e.g. sci-fi films will use some scientific knowledge.	·      It shows cultural knowledge as they used to put scarecrows in fields in the old times which shows that they have thought about what they should include in the film.

Sci-Fi Opening

Buscombe’s Theory

—Buscombe’s theory states that one genre is different from another because of the icons we associate with that genre, the physical objects or the symbols we can see on the screen. There are four elements which helps us identify and understand the genre, Location, Appearance, Tools and Miscellaneous

—Horror: dark, spooky music, trees with no leaves, weapons (knifes/guns)

—Crime Drama: dead body, weapon, suspenseful music, science lab

—Science-Fiction: futuristic gadgets, space, aliens, tight lycra suits

—Romance: red and white, flowers, soft music, warm fires, chocolates

—Comedy: group of lads, road trip, good friendships

Location

The film opening is in a high security prison with lots of jail cells. We see a vault and then an extra secure jail cell. When the person breaks out we see that the prison is on the moon.

Appearance

The security guards are wearing protective outfits whilst the prisoners are wearing dirty yellow overalls. The woman who helps the man escape was wearing a tight, short, black dress.

Tools

There is a bug that crawls out of a cake that can shoot laser beams. There are lots of futuristic guns used by the guards and then the villains whilst they escape. They also have anti-gravity shoes that the villain uses not to float away when the vacuum is lost in the prison when a hole is blown into the wall.

Miscellaneous

Some other items used in the opening includes cake, a vault, a key card to get in the vault, and lots of big heavy chains that were used to lock down the inmate.

The Signifiers And The Signified

• Futuristic Guns - set in the future, violence, crime, death, power, dominance
• Black suits - high authority, professional, wealth, gentleman
• Dark lighting - tension & suspense, evil presence, space    

Technical codes

Some of the camera angles used in the opening include an establishing shot that showed the location and setting, low angle shots that showed people walking and their footsteps, a close-up showing tattoos, her boobs and a keycard, and a tracking shot as it followed the path the prisoners would take as they left the prison.

Symbolic Codes

Dark lighting, which creates a spooky setting and keeps it mysterious. A prison officer got stuck to a wall by the insect which shows that they have some very good weapons and that it's in the future and involves aliens. The fact that the prison is on the moon suggests that everyone in the prison has done really bad crimes and are not nice people.

From the opening to Men In Black 3, we can tell that it’s a science fiction and will include lots of futuristic gadget. The beginning tells us that the majority of the film will be set in space and we can tell that the man who was locked up is the bad guy in the film.

Audience Pleasures

Target Audience

A target audience is a particular group at which a product such as a film or advirsement is amied.

Our targets audiences are going to be 15 to 25 that will affect the way we present certain things in our opening. The audience is going to have to have to enjoy being scared, as it is a crime thriller. The other aspect is going to be that the audience is left with suspense at certain times in the film, meaning that they will have to enjoy the film of not knowing what is about to happen. Mystery solving is also a key part in the demographics of our audience, with the mystery part, the audience is going to be willing to try and solve the mystery before the mystery is solved within the film. Thinking about the problems in the film is going to keep them an active participant in the audience and create a fan base afterwards willing to discuss the good and bad about the mystery, and explaining the more complicated parts to other. For example, inception still has a fan base arguing about if the whole film was a dream or it was real.  With the killer on the loose and suspects being shown the audience will undoubtly try and figure out who the killer is before it is shown, therefore to keep them from completely figuring it out, the producers and writer must leave the most important information till the end, letting them piece it all together. They could also show someone as the killer and then the evidence is disproved when something else is revealed, this could be an affair, embezzlement, something that they didn’t want people to know about and that it therefore made the audience suspicious of them.

Our opening scene will contain blood, gore, suspense, language, screaming, satanic symbols, death, and witty banter.

Adventure Film Opening