Target Audience, Institution and Location Requirements

Target Audience
We think the target audience for our film sequence would be teenagers from the age above 15 upwards. This is owing to the fact that we don’t think young children would be able to cope with or understand some of the difficult and disturbing concepts featured in the piece. We think that the sequence could be watched by both male and female audiences as certain aspects like the 'trapped in your own mind' idea or that somebody has a special talent or look so that they are excluded od others in our idea appeal to both genders. For example, we are sure that all types of people can relate to the theme of entrapment.

Institution
Our sequence would probably be a British Independent film production as our budget is not particularly high. Because our piece is the opening to a psychological thriller, our main emphasis is on the message that we are trying to convey rather than creating fantastic visual effects as a high value production like Hollywood would do.

Location Requirements
We are going to be shooting the entire sequence within the school campus as we are not using any extravagant, panoramic scenery. The main area where we will be filming is the studio space. The reason for this choice is that the studio is a plain, neutral room (black) so therefore is versatile and easy to work in. We will be filming the shots that include the use of bricks (wall building) in this area as it is practical. The shot of the baby being given from hand to hand will be filmed outside the boardinghouses The Lodge or Hurtwood House, which are looking quite grand.

Storyboard page 3

This is the third page of our first draft of our storyboards.

Stroyboarding page 2

This is the second page of the first draft.

Storyboarding page 1

That is the first page of our first draft of storyboarding. We will post a second draft if we finished developing the various angles.

Sound

This is what we thought of taking as the soundtrack and the ambient sound.

Cast list

That is the second page of our Cast list, but we might ask Doug Quinn if he can play the Father who gives his Baby away, instead of Adam.

Cast list

This is our Cast list til now. It will probably change once more.

Costumes

This is the list of the Costumes we need.

Props List and Set

This is our first draft of the props and set list.

We need for the wall mortar and bricks and a bathroom with basin and a mirror, for the vision when she washes her hands.

The process of storyboarding

A storyboard is an account of showing the series of individual shots that come together to set up the film sequence. The text should also tell us what sort of sound and light is used and the editing involved. There is an image of what each shot will roughly look like, accompanied by text which explains concisely what is going on in the mise en scene each time.


When doing my section of the storyboard sequence, I sometimes found it difficult filling in the details of the location as we are still not completely sure as to where exactly our sequence is going to be filmed. In order to make our storyboards, we were together as a group to make a list of the shot types, we are going to use in our sequence as well as the editing transition from one shot to another.
We were then given storyboard templates as seperate documents which we typed the details into before printing off so we could draw in the pictures of each shot.