ೃ⁀➷ INITIAL STORYBOARD: MAFIA *ೃ༄

Hello everyone! Today I will be showing you my groups storyboard for our film opening "MAFIA", and talking about it! Here is the storyboard:  

The first thing I will talk about is the process of making this. First, we made a script of the film opening, with stage directions, camera angles, movements, dialogue, etc. This took a long amount of time as we kept having new ideas of what to put in the script and got conflicted on what to have. However, we managed to all agree on certain aspects. After we did the script, we divided the script into different parts for each of us to sketch. Sofia sketched the first two pages (from the beginning of the film opening to the doctor opening their eyes), Samantha sketched the next three pages (the doctor opening their eyes to Aleena winning the mafia game), Aleena sketched the next two pages (the reaction to winning the Mafia game to Samantha beginning to swim), and I sketched the last two pages (Samantha's death and the title sequence). 

For the storyboard, we had a variety of camera angles. However, I think most of our scenes are close up shots, because we decided to place an emphasis on our characters emotions as they speak, to give subtle foreshadowing or to make the audience pay attention to the expression. We also used close ups for the candles, to set up the atmosphere and create a dark and eerie mood. To also add to the eerie mood, we have ominous music playing in the background. For example in the title sequence, there is eerie music playing in the background to make they audience feel uneasy. It also builds suspense, as for when Samantha is about to get killed. Some transitions we have is a fade, for example after the shot of Samantha underwater, it fades to the title sequence. Some text we have is in the title sequence while the polaroids, burning letter, and "sorry" are being shown, the credits text fades in and out.