Storyboard for our Opening

Above,  we have the beginning 6 scenes of our film. Here we have chosen a long shot for an establishing shot, in order for the audience to know where the location is. We also added in a close up of the hand on the creaking and old door to show its importance and to slightly intrigue an audience where a mid shot of the hand would not be as powerful, as it's more distant. We used mid shots and a close up when the character walks through the door, and sees the location. A shot like a long shot would not be effective as we aren't focusing on the character and we want the audience to keep their focus on the character, and their reactions.

In the next 6 scenes, we mainly used mid shots. This was to make the audience focus on the character but also aware of the surroundings in the location. We used a long shot as another establishing shot, to show the surroundings of the character and to show a light flickering above the character in the corridor. We have also used different angles to accomplish shot reverse shot, and to show the status of the character as we used high and low angles.  If we did not use these angles e.g. eyeline shots, then status would not be shown or apparent. 

In the next 6 scenes the character is going into the final location. These scenes are built up of mainly long shots, mid shots and mid long shots, in order to again make the audience aware of both the character and surroundings at the same time. We also used a close up of a shadow to show the importance of it. If we did not use a close up of the shadow then it would not be noticed by the audience and would not be apparent. We have also used one point of view shot in order to build up the tension and to put the audience in the position of the character to make it more engaging. 

These are the final 6 scenes. We have decided to mainly use mid shots, mid long shots and close ups, as in a horror film you need to witness the facial reactions and emotions of a character, to engage the audience. We have chosen mostly mid shots and close ups over extreme long shots and long shots because it interacts with the audience more, whereas a long shot would distance the audience more and the action would not be clear. We think that by using putting the audience closer to the character, a climax is built up towards the ending when the shadow and character are the only things in focus.