OCR A2 Media Studies - Unit G324 - Storyboard

‘Meadows End’

StoryboardJoseph GibbsAbbie FowlerAaron ThomasHannah D’Souza

Meadows End

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Est. Shot

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Empty swings creaking in a dystopian deserted park while music slowly fades in – creates a sense of mystery.

Swings creaking

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CU Establishing shot of the Admiral Hawke pub, establishes one of the settings of the trailer, and is a familiar setting to the audience – ‘personal identification’ (Katz).

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Lily and Hayden seen flirting in the pub – connotes romance as a theme. Personal relationship with the working class (Katz).

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CU Hayden puts his hand on Lily’s hand in a romantic way connoting a sense of love.

Fade

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Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams

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EL- Eye levelLA- Low angleHA- High angle

MS- Mid shotLS- Long shotFS- Full shot

CU- Close upECU- Extreme close upEst. S- Establishing shot

FF-Fast forwardBF- Broken Frame shotOTS- Over the shoulder

Joseph, Abbie, Aaron & Hannah

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5 CU Shot of Ace looking away, suggesting they know each other and have some kind of relationship.Fade

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Male antagonist (Ace) getting out of car – foot only shown, no face revealed to add to the mystery.

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Lily walking through the lonely park , past the swings we saw at the beginning giving the audience a sense of disequilibrium (Todorov).

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PANNING– left to right




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8 Tracking shot of Ace following Lily. Face not shown still to connote mystery and keep the audience interested within the disequilibrium scene.

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TRACKING SHOTTaylor Swift – Wildest

Dreams

9 Panning across the river, until we see Hayden on his knee to Lily, in an utopian setting. Binary opposite (Levi Strauss) to the abandoned park.

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Close up of Hayden looking willfully at Lily, hoping she will accept the proposal; again connoting a sense of equilibrium (Todorov).

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Lily happy yet surprised – close-up of facial expression, connoting ‘the strong woman’ (Rebecca Feasey) as she has a choice of her own.

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PANNING– right to left




12 High angle shot of Lily walking through park again – flash forward.

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13 Lily walking in the park, close up of her phone near her ear – no dialogue heard.

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Long shot of Hayden and Lily as bride and groom standing at the altar.

Mid shot of the Lily and Hayden at the altar, smiling. This semantically encodes (Rebecca Feasy) “strong woman” theory. As her utopian emotions influence Hayden to be calm and the wedding being furthered without disaster.

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16Candle comes into focus as camera tilts up to Hayden and Lily at the altar. The candle connotes a sense of hope and love.

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17 Close up of Hayden putting the ring on Lily, tilt up to male’s facial expression.

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18 Ace stands up and heads towards the door. This conforms to “self-image” (Hartley’s seven subjectivities) because Ace’s appearance pragmatically encodes that the audience will be uncomfortable.

Ace turns back and looks at Lily, looking sad and annoyed. This further reveals the plot, connoting Ace will do something horrific effecting the characters’ and influencing more “disequilibrium” – (Todorov)

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PANNING– left to right

TILT UP

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Eye-line match with Lily, who turns away, dismissing Ace and connoting she does not have feelings for him.

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Lily walking through the park again. This is “repeated” (Steve Neal) fluently to connote a sense normality in the trailer.

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Lily’s foot stepping into a puddle, connotes tension and mystery. These two connotations are exactly what we want our audience to feel when watching our trailer and highlights the genre of our trailer.

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23Tracking shot of Ace following Lily in park. Considering that Ace is the antagonist we want him to have the role in which adds tension to the “disequilibrium” (Todorov) narrative.

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Close up of knife in Ace (antagonist’s) hand to shock the audience. Meanwhile ‘ready to attack Lilly’ (Steve Neal) at a slowed pace. Since the thematic issue is murder in our trailer this is repeated from authentic soap opera trailers.

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Lily turns around with a shocked facial expression. This reveals that t this point all the incrementum has built up and resulted to her danger.

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Lily wakes up in bed, shocked, as if she has just had a nightmare.

Camera tilts down to reveal Ace in bed next to her, asleep.

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Slow zoom in to Ace’s eyes as they jolt open to connote a sense of “horror”. This conforms to Roland Barthes’ theory as the intended audience realize that the fear set when Ace opens up his eyes miraculously suggests that this genre has a twist of mystery and horror.

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Fade to black

Ends with the point of call with the swings swinging in the background.

Swings creaking

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Slow zoom in to Ace’s eyes as they jolt open to connote a sense of “horror”. This conforms to Roland Barthes’ theory as the intended audience realize that the fear set when Ace opens up his eyes miraculously suggests that this genre has a twist of mystery and horror.

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