The working is very rough, but I hope the initial idea is at least clear through the images. I decided to storyboard through a 6 section method.
Top left = Frame
Top Middle = Camera
Top Right = Sound
Bottom Left = Duration, Shot no. and misc.
Bottom Middle = mise-en-scene
Bottom Right = Editing
I chose this method to help me stay on top of my idea and give me plenty of space to write ideas down so I don't forget any.
Again this idea is very rough. I currently have two ideas for an ending, and I will look for audience feedback for the two ideas to see which is better as I feel the ending is vital in short films and I want to use the most effective one.
Synopsis - Crime/Horror
The opening scene starts black and smash cut(1) to an axe chopping.
In the background of the axe, there is a young girl(2) in a white dress(3) in a field playing in the grass.
She then stumbles and falls.
Presumably dead, two men run over to help her.
As the axe reaches its peak of the next swing, thunderstrikes(4) and it begins to heavy rain. There is now a makeshift grave(5) in the background.
As the axe-man places some wood on the chop, a fly(6) lands on it. When the man cuts the wood the fly flys off and the camera tracks it.
The fly takes the camera to an old, crumbling house. The door swings open, hitting and injuring(7) the fly.
The camera either swoops under the guy's legs or the door is then shut and the camera travels through it.
Inside the room is a woman crying(8) at the table with a messily drawn chair next to her.
Cut to a man wearing a judge wig inside the house who mentions a death last summer.
Axeman appears at the door asking if everything is ok, then walks off....
(1) Starts film with intensity, can also jumpscare audience.
(2) Shows innocence, intensifies emotions surrounding death.
(3) reinforces innocence and signifies purity
(4) rain like God crying, sadness, mournful, destruction
(5) makeshift shows older times and poorer area.
(6) Seemingly insignificant but reveals curiosity of girl and disease of area.
(7) Fly survives first threat then dies, potential reference to young girl
(8) narrative device, she and man must be parents.
That's all so far, I will do sufficient research before adding an ending with a twist.
Theories & Inspirations
Strauss - Follow - Poor vs rich, Black vs White
Barthes - Follow - enigmas and action codes
Hall - Follow - Little girl is innocent, the women are seen as vulnerable, the men are seen as angry.
Propp - Follow - A lot of the genre type characters feature, even in this short film.
Stereotypes - Follow - Men, woman, children, all stereotypical
Todorov - Challenge - Very little equilibrium initially and it never returns.
Cabin in the woods - early jump scare. Not only are jumpscares conventions of horrors, using them will scare my audience with desired effect.
Friday the 13th - Axe as murder weapon in horror. Thanks to this film, axes have become iconic weapons in horror film so I will likely use one aswell.
Forrest Gump - In opening sequence, camera follows feather, I follow fly
Woman in Black - death of child + physiological thriller(also The Blair Witch Projet in this aspect)
Synopsis - Crime/Horror
The opening scene starts black and smash cut(1) to an axe chopping.
In the background of the axe, there is a young girl(2) in a white dress(3) in a field playing in the grass.
She then stumbles and falls.
Presumably dead, two men run over to help her.
As the axe reaches its peak of the next swing, thunderstrikes(4) and it begins to heavy rain. There is now a makeshift grave(5) in the background.
As the axe-man places some wood on the chop, a fly(6) lands on it. When the man cuts the wood the fly flys off and the camera tracks it.
The fly takes the camera to an old, crumbling house. The door swings open, hitting and injuring(7) the fly.
The camera either swoops under the guy's legs or the door is then shut and the camera travels through it.
Inside the room is a woman crying(8) at the table with a messily drawn chair next to her.
Cut to a man wearing a judge wig inside the house who mentions a death last summer.
Axeman appears at the door asking if everything is ok, then walks off....
(1) Starts film with intensity, can also jumpscare audience.
(2) Shows innocence, intensifies emotions surrounding death.
(3) reinforces innocence and signifies purity
(4) rain like God crying, sadness, mournful, destruction
(5) makeshift shows older times and poorer area.
(6) Seemingly insignificant but reveals curiosity of girl and disease of area.
(7) Fly survives first threat then dies, potential reference to young girl
(8) narrative device, she and man must be parents.
That's all so far, I will do sufficient research before adding an ending with a twist.
Theories & Inspirations
Strauss - Follow - Poor vs rich, Black vs White
Barthes - Follow - enigmas and action codes
Hall - Follow - Little girl is innocent, the women are seen as vulnerable, the men are seen as angry.
Propp - Follow - A lot of the genre type characters feature, even in this short film.
Stereotypes - Follow - Men, woman, children, all stereotypical
Todorov - Challenge - Very little equilibrium initially and it never returns.
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Cabin in the woods - early jump scare. Not only are jumpscares conventions of horrors, using them will scare my audience with desired effect.
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Forrest Gump - In opening sequence, camera follows feather, I follow fly
Woman in Black - death of child + physiological thriller(also The Blair Witch Projet in this aspect)
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