Our Rough Storyboard

This is our rough storyboard for our film opening:

This is where most of our ideas are based and the basic concept of our film opening and a general layout of what we want to happen, this helps us organise our ideas instead of just having a jumbled up sense of how things may happen, the post-it notes meant that we could add or take things away if the idea is not used, yet again meaning our ideas are less jumbled up, although we did not add many picture onto this because we thought it would be better to add information and draw the pictures onto our final version later. We have now gone on to hopefully create our final storyboard version.

Our group decided on starting off the opening with Dawson sat in his office with his head in his hands as he reflects upon his memories, this gives enigma and adds mood to the environment Dawson is in, this scene would also clearly show the pained expression on his face, we are also debating as whether to add a pan shot around his figure to increase the mood of the office environment.
The next scene shows an extreme close up of Dawson's eyes as he closes them, as if in pain, as he remembers the dead victims, a series of flashbacks occur.

In this next scene it is a flashback which only lasts a few seconds to create more enigma as Dawson looks at the dead victim, an echo of the dead girl's scream ensues and Dawson finds a clue that leads him into some woods.
At this point the flashback ends and the scene returns to the office where Dawson is looking at a suspect board, a board full of pictures linked with bits of string attached to each of the photos, in this scene Dawson is focusing his eyesight on a photo of the victim.
The suspect board is then used for credits e.g. the cast, characters and actors, using a pan shot then a couple of sections looking at each characters info then moving on.

In the next scene Dawson is looking in the woods for clues, although it stops there to create more enigma as to why he was there in the first place, and also to not reveal too much of the actually film, this then signals the end of the flashbacks as the next scene is shown.
This scene starts with Dawson stood outside the interrogation room, as if he had been daydreaming and had snapped out of it.

 

This scene shows Dawson entering the interrogation room and slamming the door, then throwing a portfolio file with the word "CLASSIFIED" in big red letters on the table where an unknown criminal is sat, the criminal takes a look at the contents, which are not shown to the audience.

The title of the film is then shown, by fading in on a blank black background, the title font is going to be the same font as the word classified on the front of the portfolio file.