Story Board Plan for our Preliminary Task (TO FINISH)

Shot 1&2 - As an introduction to our Preliminary, we decided to use a panning shot of our chosen setting (a school - not connectected to our inspirational theme of The Coen Brothers but we were limited due to the lesson-time schedule - this could be worked on and planned for, for our final Thriller production) and put our own 'stamp' on it by using a shot of children playing to fade out to a deserted scene, which we thought would lend itself well to The Coen Brothers Auter as the famous deserted panning shot, as the fading exadurates the deserted aspect well.

Shot 3 - Also to lend itself to The Coen Brothers productions, we decided to use an establishing shot of the School enterance to establish our chosen setting. We decided to add a horizontal panning motion tothis shot to link smooth, movement often used by The Coen Brothers. (We had a time limit on this task and therefore did not manage to use as many esablishing shots as we originally planned - which will be worked on and improved before our final Thriller production.

Shot 4,5&6 - We planned a zooming motioned shot of a window which we thought represented aspects of The Coen Brothers Auter as the camera is to zoom to focus on an area of focus. This technique was followed on for shot 5&6 also as the camera tracks the cup and extreme close up of legs exiting door. This technique also links to The Coen Brothers style of 'mystery' as the character is still yet to be discovered as only small sectors of them are revealed at one time; this connects the shots to tension as it is slowly built up for the audience.

Shot 7&8 - This shot continues the mysterious technique used as only the top of the characters head is on camera. The birds-eye-view shot also suggests a point-of-view shot, building extreme tension for the audience as they are unaware of any character or story line. The tracking motion of the character is also a comon technique from The Coen Brothers productions in which we have incorporated into our planning. Shot 8 also goes on to follow this planning, but is a long shot of the character to also avoid audience connection but continue the tensionised suspicion of a possible point-of-view-shot to suggest a presence in the (what appears to be a) lone school.

--------We were full aware that during The Coen Brothers Auter minimal character introduction and contact takes place and is why our planning began to drift away from the inspirational work of The Coen Brothers , but we had instruction to include character contact and dialogued comunication within our Preliminary Production. But... we still tried to link our work to that of  The Coen Brothers -------------

Shot 9&10 -

By Nadine Parker