Storyboard for Opening Sequence

We had to create a storyboard on Celtx to show the scenes we are going to use in our opening and our camera shots that we are going to incorporate. This storyboard shows exactly how we are going to produce our opening. It shows that we are going to start off with a black screen which will then show the title of the film 'Christian Carter' because it is the protagonists name and is a film about his life, so it seems relevant, it then shows that we are going to have an establishing shot of a field and slowly zoom in on the figure that is in that field where all gets revealed: That it is a teen male holding a dead female body in his arms, this creates enigma also due to us not knowing anything about what is happening and wanting to know why she is dead and why he is carrying her through a field. We have a series of close ups on the female body then to show that she is in fact dead and she is a female. After this, there is a close up on the boys face to show his emotion and then the medium shot after this shows the environment of which is a bedroom and we see that he has just awoken, the voice over helps to anchor what was happening in the field. There is then a P.O.V shot of a picture frame which connotes that it has some sort of importance and then zooms into it revealing what the picture is of, and it is the boy and the dead girl which connotes that they had a relationship, it then fades out to show the same girl on a missing poster, the dream at the beginning anchors that she is dead and shows us that the characters in the film (apart from the boy) think that she is missing but only the audience and the boy know the truth, the audience feel as though they have been let in on a secret. There is another long shot showing the boy walking down the street, creating enigma, where is he going? The medium shot connotes that the voice over is coming from the boy and the voice over then answers our question as to where he is going and the flash back anchors all of what the voice over is saying. We are in a medium shot until he gets to a door and then we get another long shot to reveal all 3 people in a frame and also the dead girl... which will also be shown via an over the shoulder shot, it will then fade out to black to end the opening sequence.

This storyboard is going to help with our filming and will be a major guideline with filming and will help us know what shots are going to happen and where, it will help us to produce a good opening we have imagined and thought of. 

*At the very very start of the opening we will have the institution that is going to help with production etc with our film, like, Fox, Disney etc*