Here is our pilot ideas within our rough storyboard. After completing this, we have deicided to stick to these ideas, although we have used stickynotes in certain areas of the video's plot in order for us to move around our initial ideas - both mentally and physically - as we are not 100% sure yet to what order our shots will be completed in, as well as what we will use, confiscate, etc. Therefore, it was really helpful to use the notes. We will decide our final ideas when completing our photo storyboard, as this will be more visual and actually include our locations and props.
The opening for our film begins with a black background. This is due to little time for all of our titles throughout the rest of thie film, so we plan to include at least three of our planned titles within this section. The black will begin with no sound, as this adds tension and the audience will ponder over its meaning. The black will then fade into the clip
This fade edit reveals a window in a bedroom. The camera lingers here for a moment, and begins to pan slowly to the right of the room. During this, natural night time sounds are heard, whilst credits (in white, to contrast the darker settings) contrast the scene. The camera halts to a stop at the bookcase, lingers once more, and begins to pan left, whilst slowly tilting down, too. The camera eventually stops on the bedside table, as well as with the opening titles halting. This opening lasts for about 16 seconds. A cut in, revealing an extreme close up of the clock on the table follows, lingering for approximatley four seconds to emphasize the ambient ticking sound, which emphasizes ticking thoughts. A cut edit then reveals a girl in bed next to this asleep. She turns over, adding to another ambient sound.
A cut follows, showing the girl in bed from an aerial shot. This shows her more clearly, introducing the character. The camera begins to slowly zoom in, and the non-diegetic narration of her voice follows, as she begins to explain part of the narrative of the story - based upon her dreams, from our speech. After 5 seconds of this shot, a flashback folllows, and as she continues to talk we witness part of her daily ritual repeated three times (her getting into bed, plumping her pillows and turning her light off to go sleep) although each time in different pyjamas to show a change in costume. This use of repetition emphasizes how she carries on her normal life, with these dreams occuring. It emphasizes how they come back every night, and the use of her innocence is toyed with as she naturally gets ready for bed, almost forgetting that she will soon be tormented. In the shots she will appear natural - almost happy - so at this point she was probably unaware. We may show her mood gradually getting worse throughout the shots. Overall, these three shots repeated three times continues for about 24 seconds, when her narration is cut and a jump cut of an extreme close up of her finger turning her light off follows. This is to show normality quickly being shut off. This only lasts for about a second.
The cut then shows pure blackness. This is to highlight how alone she now is, as everything else has been shut off in the world and she is just alone with her thoughts - and her dreams. One last narration follows after about 3 seconds, to finalise her speech and make it more dramatic, when a dissolve edit follows as we enter her dreams. The first shot shows a figure in a red hood - appearing to be a female child - as she stands in a tunnel with her head bowed and her stance is lingering. We hear non-diegetic, foreboding sounds, that are almost hissing and screechy. After three seconds, the same time period for the next shot follows, showing the girl again, now in a grassy field. The sounds continue. We then see her under a low-key lighted tree, standing next to a road. It is unknown who she is and what she is doing, as well where she is and why. A cut then follows, the reveal her from an establishing, long shot on top of a bridge, also from a high-level position.
A cut then follows, showing the girl from a low level position, as she almost doesn't acknowledge the camera and continues to stare. After two seconds, a cut follows again, revealing a long, dirty path. A jump cut follows, as she appears on the image. We may use a scream to parellel this. After this, a longshot reveals her walking past the camera under a bridge. The darkness of the shot adds to the eeriness. A cut follows, showing trees from a longshot position, in a woody area. The figure is in the distance again, hiding behind a tree. A cut follows again, to reveal her in a different destination, with a black background. She is standing still again, although we can see a slight more amount of her face, showing her slightly more revealed. At the point, we plan for the music to change to suit this scene.
A jump cut shows her even closer. We now see her mouth, which is smirking slightly - it adds a slight sinister insideness with the girl, which is even freakier. After 2-3 seconds of this, a shot reverse shot follows showing the girl from the previous medium shot, although she is now holding an object in a her hand - a gold heart necklace. A cut in to her hands emphasizes the object, although it is slowly beginning to fall out of her hands now. A long shot reveals the object in slow motion falling through the air from her hands. A montage then begins, firstly featuring an upclose of a womans lips, as she slowly applies bold red lipstick.
The montage then continues, all featuring 1 second shots. Next shows an extreme up close, tilt on paper, which will feature fake blood or food colouring dripping. Next is a shot reverse shot of the lips again, although now the lipstick is now smudged. This highlights feminity being fractured. A shot follows of a long shot of the figures shadow running past - unsure whether this will be at night or in the day. An upclose of a doorknob follows, as the handle moves with somebody attempting to get into a locked room. Throughout this montage of clips, static-like freaky music will be played. Afterwards, a shot of the necklace on the ground follows, highlighting.
The second montages follows, with more bizarre sounds following. An up close of a finger with bright red nail varnish is shown, as it is pressed onto the surface. A cut follows, revealing an unknown individual with a camera, which hints at research throughout the film. A SVS of the finger up close then follows, although the nail varnish has been severly chipped, also relating the feminity being injured. This may hint at one of the females within the dream being hurt. More research is then highlighted, as an up close of a large book with the page turning is shown. A flash of a bloody hand will then follow, hinting at possible pain and gore, followed by more blood with an aerial shot of an up close of a bloody sink as the liquid pours down the drain. A SVS follows of the necklace, although now it is covered in blood. At this point, the music has stopped to show a disruption.
After three seconds of this, to emphasize lingering. After this, a cut follows, to reveal the girls bedroom from the start. However, the light is now on, showing ambient lighting. A piercing sound will then be heard, as the camera is hand-held and shakes slightly. We can see the bed from a longshot, although a net has been thrown over the top and a figure is seen. After two seconds, the shot repeats, although we will be slightly closer to the bed and to the right. We can now recognise the figure as the red hooded figure from before. A close up cut follows, then showing the girl very close to the camera, althoguh hidden slightly from the net. Her head is also bowed. However, as the music continues, she parallels its freakish-ness and grabs the netting, pulling it back as well as throwing her hood backwards. Her face is then revealed as a freaky mess, which is complimented well with the non-diegetic sound of a overwhelming screech/wail/scream. The figure has been shown on the bed, to show how overwhelming she is, and how she takes over the girls overallness - in particular, her dreams hence the use of the bed. A cut then finalises our opening sequence, as the original dreamer is revealed from an aerial shot, as she wakes up from the dream and gasps, to show how affected she is by these nightmares.
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