And The Rest Is History - Story Board Timeline

This is our initial idea for our story board. It clearly presents the idea's that we first thought about such as the home video's.

As the story board begins we can see that there is a shot showing a credit saying 'SLED productions presents'. This is one of the shots that we will be showing at the beginning of our film so this is one of the aspects that will remain the same whithin the next story board that we do for our final piece.

SLED productions stands for SYDNEY LIBBIE ELLIE DANIELLA. We feel that this is quite effective but we are not yet sure on weather to use this as this was going to be our production name. We have now thought of other ideas to use for this aspect of our film opening.

The next shot is another credit showing 'In association with County High Media' another shot that we will be using in our final story board.

For the rest of the story board, a lot of the idea's that we had about shots such as the artistic shot's we are no longer including as we felt that too much was going on within the first scene when we did practice shots.

When we included the voice over on top of the background music and all the different shots that were going on, it began to look more like a short film rather than an opening sequence; It looked more like we was trying to show shots that were significant throughout the rest of the film which is the opposite to what we were trying to achieve which was to create an opening which left the audience in enigma wondering where the two people in our opening sequence were going to go.

The shot that we see after the first set of credits in our story board, suggests that we were going to show blurred shots of people walking around a train station, buying tickets etc but we felt that if we did this too early on then the audience would know where the characters were heading and enigma wouldn't be able to be fulfilled effectively.

There is multiple aspects of this story board that we will be using in our final idea such as some of the animations.

We feel that through the animations we have created for our story board we can make an effective opening by drawing the audience in more using conventional film opening iconic animations portraying characters emotions and helping set the atmosphere of the opening.

The shot that show's sam's character crossing the road will be a similar shot to something we will use within our final piece as we feel that this is very effective that fact that he will have his hood up as he crosses the road. This will give the impression that he is in deep thought and isn't thinking about his health and safety when crossing the road although we will take full precaution when filming this shot.

Shots after this will be our action shots showing 'home video's. Something that we will not be using in our final opening sequence filming.

We decided against this as we felt that this was an aspect that could show that it looked more like a short film or a trailer rather than a film opening. (When we done our practice filming, it was established clearly that this wasnt going to work).

From 0:56 in the story board to 1:38, shots are shown in the story board that we will not be using as they are all related to home video's and the idea that the past tense is being shown.

From 2/3rds of the story board onwards, we will be using a lot of the idea's that we got from this story board to complete our final one.

When filming, we are hoping to portray the idea that time is passing as the two characters are getting ready.

We are going to do this through the use of props such as clocks and the idea that time is passing as the sunrise's which is shown within this story board.

At the end of this story board, the point in which the music begins to pick up and the audience can see that the two characters are pace walking towards one another, enigma is created which is why we feel that this will be a very effective shot to film and use.

At the end, where the two character's walk passed each other in the train station, the title will be shown much like it is on this story board but we will be writing it either on a black screen as a title on its own or we will give the impression that it has been embedded on the brick work of the wall that they are passing on.

We feel that this will be very effective in our final filming as it creates a lot of emotion and makes the audience build up enigma and tension as they begin to think that the two people/animations that have been advancing towards one another, are going to join together.

The rest of the film's story line will remain a mystery as not too much will be given away within the opening sequence. This will leave the audience wanting to watch more and full of suspense as we want them to feel soprry for the male character as he speaks so nicely about (what the audience think of as) his girlfriend and yet when they pass eachother they walk completely opposite ways like they dont even know eachother.