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Production Promotional Video

Storyboard (Part 1)

This is our storyboard for the dream which is the first half of our opening. The dream will be a continuous hand held point of view shot. As the storyboard has been done one the computer it was difficult to add in all the details, therefore some details have been missed out that will be included in our opening, For example Aisha looks down at her feet showing her muddy slippers.

Shot List

1.      Pulse Productions opening

2.      Fades to black and hear heavy breathing

3.      Point of view shot – running through the woods

4.      ‘Saira Ali as Aisha’ – over the point of view shot

5.      180° turn – point of view shot

6.      Jump cut of shadowy figure getting closer

7.      “Tara McGuire as The Unknown” over the point of view shot

8.       Knocking sound over the jump cut (sound bridge)

9.       Extreme close up of eyes opening – title shown, still hear knocking.

10.  Close up of feet getting out of bed

11.  Camera tracking – following feet downstairs, close up.

12.  Over the shoulder shot, ‘Kaiesha Stewart-Haugh as Chelsea’ over the top

13.  Pan midshot of Chelsea walking in

14.  Mid shot of Chelsea sitting down and making herself comfortable

15.  Mid shot of Chelsea talking

16.  Close up/mid shot of Aisha looking uninterested

17.  Cut to Chelsea looking surprised

18.  Cut to Aisha saying ‘I had a dream again’ – Long shot making tea

19.  Cut to Chelsea, two shot saying ‘It is just a dream’ Aisha looks out the window and sees ‘the Unknown’

20.  Eyeline match looks again and ‘The Unknown’ is gone

21.  Chelsea walks over to window, two shot ‘did you see that?’ – Aisha

22.  Point of view shot (The Unknown) – speech can’t be heard

Character Profiles

Plan

Aisha (played by me) will run through the woods & turn around and will see a unknown character (played by Tara) standing in the woods. The unknown character will get closer and closer (jump shots), in the background a synchronous knocking sound will play adding tension to the scene. The knocking will get louder and it will cut to a extreme close up of Aisha's eyes opening. The knocking will be continuous leading into the next scene too. There will then be a close up of Aisha's feet as she gets out of bed and a close up of some muddy wellies in her room showing this as the object of significance. The camera will then track alongside Aisha's feet as she runs down the stairs to open the door. There will be an over the shoulder shot from the outside of the house. Aisha will open the door and Chelsea (played by Kaiesha) will walk in. The camera will follow her across the room in to the kitchen and she will start talking about her personal life. Aisha will look uninterested in Chelsea's personal life, to this Chelsea will ask 'what is wrong?'. Aisha will reply "I had the dream again, it must mean something".  To this Chelsea will look uninterested and will continue telling her story. The next shot will be of Aisha looking out of the window and again see the unknown character in her garden. She will then ask Chelsea if she saw the character too but Chelsea will go to look out of the window the unknown character will not be in view. Finally, there will be a  point of view shot from the unknown character looking at the window towards Aisha and Chelsea arguing but no sound from the argument will be heard.

Recce

Our group has decided to film out opening in the nearby woods in John Cabot. One of the characters will be run through the woody path and this will lead to a dead end, where there will be some kind of cliffhanger.