Our Thriller Opening Storyboard

Shot one is the very start of the sequence where there is a short shot of a woman's legs being dragged along a floor. We are opening our thriller opening sequence as we have chose to create it starting with the very end scene of the film so that the audience will have an insight into what the outcome will be but don't know who's legs they are, why they are being dragged across the floor, who is dragging them across the floor and what happened to the person for them to now be in this position. 

Shot two will be the same as shot one but will focus in on the ladies heels. 

 

Shot three will be a transition from the ladies legs being dragged across the floor to a shot of her walking over to her dressing table in the same heels seen in the first two shots.

The next shot after the transition will show a lady, wearing the same heels as were just shown in the first two opening scenes, walking towards her dressing table. The camera will be low so you can only see part of her legs and her heels showing that the focus on this stage is on the heels to show that it is the same lady who was at the start of the sequence. 

Fifth will be of the lady applying her red lipstick, it is planned to be a close up of her lips so that her face is still hidden and the audience will be left for longer wondering who the identity of this lady is. The lipstick will be red as it is classy and will appeal to our male target audience. 

The next part of the sequence will be the lady tightening her scarf around her hands and then swiftly wrapping it around her neck. The close up of her wrapping it round her fists shows the tension, anger and frustration she is feeling as well as symbolising the rope which is used later on in the sequence. 

The next shot will be the lady grabbing her bag.

The next shots will then be of the lady walking along streets to the warehouse location. 

The next shot will show the lady arriving at a warehouse. The past few shots will be done using ellipses as we are just highlighting important parts of her getting herself prepared and travelling to the main location. 

Next will be shots of the male victim, also known as the ex-boss tied up to a wooden chair inside the warehouse with his mouth gagged. This is challenging typical thriller stereotypes as normally the male would play more of an action role or playing the villain yet in our sequence we are reversing and challenging the stereotypes so the lady is not the damsel in distress but the action chick/alpha female.

The next few shots in the sequence will be of the two characters sharing some dialogue with the lady having the most screen time as she is the more dominant and important character in the sequence.

The next shots will show the lady pouring petrol from a petrol canister on and around the male victim.

Then the next shot will show the lady lighting up a cigarette as if to tease and threaten the male victim who will be scared at this point that she will throw the cigarette onto the petrol.

The lady will then be seen in the next shot taking a slow puff fro the cigarette showing that she is tormenting the man even more and this will leave the audience in suspense as to whether or not she will in fact light up the petrol and kill the man tied up.

However the next shot will transition with a very quick and sharp cut as suddenly the man tied up will say a trigger word which will change the whole situation. 

The next shot will then show that the trigger word caused two big men wearing all black to appear in the warehouse with guns pointing towards the lady. 

The last shot of our sequence will be a close up of the lady dropping her cigarette, however we will not show where the cigarette lands or what happens after or whether or not the cigarette will start a fire and kill the man tied up in the warehouse.