This story board is our original idea of how we waned the thriller opening to look like. We have used this to plan our direction on the day.
We want to start on a tracking shot of a female characters legs, only below the knee. This will create tension because she has heels on - the heels make her look unsafe/connote instability. we wanted to set her up as a possible victim straight away. The high heels could be used to create or challenge the stereotype of a particular type of woman (confident but also an object of desire/victim. We actually chose black heels to make her more business-like and this had less connotations than red heels, which are considered more overtly related to attraction. We want to make it obvious she is the victim in the opening sequence and make it easy for the audience to understand. If we made the whole movie we might decide to play on this stereotype by e.g making the woman the criminal, rather than the victim as she seems to be in the title sequence.
We made sure we used EWS to establish the scene later and a close up (CU) of the villains face to show how menacing he is. Also it is one of our first close ups so it's quite dramatic to suddenly show someone's expression. It should shock the audience as we want the character to appear out of the dark.
Extra note added after shoot:
On the day we came up with some more creative ideas as we were filming which we had not planned for possibly because we were not experienced enough at the time.
Completed by Aleksandra.