Preproduction: Storyboard

          In class, Josie and I started drawing up our storyboard. A tool very helpful for the pr production process, a storyboard is a visual outline of a film (be it a short film or feature film). The board is made up of a series of images that show everything that's going to happen in the film, and for our project my group decided to use a paper version.

         Obviously we will not be sing stick figures for this film, but we wanted to show the basic idea of what our film is going to look like and this was the easiest way to get the point across. The first box on the first row is going to be the introduction to our main character, Brittany. Josie thought of a really cool idea for the opening scene, and said that we could take different shots of Brittany walking around campus and create a montage that displays the film's setting. The second box in this depicts our stalker staring at Brittany as she walks through the halls to her locker, and the third shot is going to be a view of Brittany through a surveillance camera lens.

          The security camera point of view is meant to add a spooky effect to the film, similar to the camera style used in Paranormal Activity (2007). In the second row, the first shot is going to introduce the audience to the Stalker for the first time in the film. We want to shoot a close up of the Stalker's face to really emphasize his reactions to Brittany almost catching him staring. The next one is going to be the part of the film where our two characters meet and Brittany accidentally whacks him with her locker. We didn't have anymore spaces to draw up the end of our film, but we are planning on having the Stalker attack Brittany in her car as she goes to snap a selfie. Shooting begins in a couple days... wish us luck!