For the film opening, we want to create suspense and build tension by revealing information about the character little by little (of how unstable she is). Before drawing a storyboard, we searched for the following pictures in order for us to have a brief idea of our composition for each frame that we are going to shoot.
We decided to do some tweaking to our initial idea and storyboard that we planned. Here is our second idea for our sequence:
1) Solid black background with faint diegetic sound of someone walking along the hallway
2) Sharp cut to hallway -
During the lesson, we discussed about the lightings that we were going to use. We searched images of creepy hallways and as a result we agreed to go with the greenish/blue lighting/colour as this makes it mysterious and creates a sense of unease.
3) Camera slowly zooms in from an empty eerie hallway with a door at the end of the hall and continues to zoom through the peephole of the door where we see a woman sitting at her desk
4) Camera pans the room to her desk where we see her wall full off cut out faces and magazine pages and there is a point of view shot of the woman working. The audience sees her wrinkly old hands cutting pieces out from magazines. Things on her desk include : tape, scissors, magazines, sewing tools
5) She gets up to leave (camera still in point of view) to the bathroom and stops in front of the mirror, her face and identity is revealed to the audience for the first time as an old lady.
6) Shot cuts to the back of her head while looking at the mirror, showing a few grey hair and skin of her back
7) Extreme close up shot as she slowly pulls a strand of grey hair. This connotes violence and frustration (and her insecurity) the character has towards herself (self destruction).
8) Strand of hair lands in the sink and we see that there are many strands (emphasizes her old age)
9) Woman walks out of the toilet and camera zooms out to wide shot of her room gradually
where body/leg can be seen hanging out of the bathtub with blood dripping
This is the storyboard for this idea and a video to explain the camera movement in each frame:
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