PRE-VISUALISATION - COURSEWORK

Mood board

Before we started planning, we used various techniques such as creating a mood board to plan the tone and some iconography of our film. Although we decided on using a narrative that appeared cheerful (couple going on a picnic), we initially collected photos that captured a kidnapping/murder. This reflected our original idea for our thriller film. We later went on to decide we wanted the film to have connotations of these events rather than showing the murder outright. We both felt this would make the scenes feel more sinister. From there we chose to film a conventional couple as they go to a picnic to contrast the connotations of murder. Once we reveal the body we hope our film will become more menacing. Despite the changes to the plot, we continued to use the mood board to help us capture the tone of the film, and we still included the off-putting imagery of food as we had originally planned.

 

Shot ideas

Once we had settled on the vague idea of our plot, Clementine and I began to verbally plan out the scenes, including some shot ideas. As we talked I noted down some of our ideas, and we later used this and developed it into a storyboard (with some slight adjustments to the narrative, order and shots).