Idea Storyboard

This storyboard follows the plan idea in a previous post. It includes all the usual conventions of a storyboard such as mis en scene, drawing of the shot, lighting and sound. 

There are no timings included since this is the beginning of the production of the project so they are subject to change.

Movie Opening Intro

For movie intro and opening credits project, I will be in a group that consists of myself, Harry Garwood and Keenan Myers.


Plot Draft #1
Thriller and more specifically police drama taking inspiration from Luther and Sin City.
The opening will follow a similar art-house-esque bleakness. It will open with a seemingly villainous bomb maker with cuts to a detective looking man walking down a street with a monologue running through. It will reveal the personality of the main character who is the detective. The cuts to the bomb maker will be surreal and take elements from the Se7en opening (the frantic hand movements and sinister sounds). There will be a use of non-digetic sound in these cuts to the bomb-maker creating a surreal juxtaposition and the music we had in mind was the cheerful song Baba Yetu by Judith De La Santos. The music that follows the detective will be digetic city sounds such as car horns and sirens. 
The scene will end with a cut to the detective when he gets a phone call telling him that there has been another attack and it will follow with a final line from the monologue before the main movie titles begin.
Throughout the scene at the bottom of the shots, credits will fade in and out in a way that is noticeable but not distracting from the action on screen.

Inspiration:

Horror Mood Board

Comedy Mood Board

Audience Research

Based on this list of most successful movies to date, a pattern is clear. All these movies on the list are larger than life and far from reality. Even the top highest grossing movie is set on a distant planet followed by a romanticised version of the Titanic story. 
3 of the top 5 grossing movies are big budget science fiction, action or fantasy films showing a popular modern trend.

The list also shows that the film does not have to be abundant in animated effects (such as Avatatar) to be successful for example: The Dark Knight.

From this list, it is clear that the comedy genre is very popular with the general audience based on these figures. In my opinion, this is because of the wide audience comedy appeals.