Planning: Storyboard Update

Before the filming stage commenced, I produced storyboards in order to aid our group in terms of knowing what shots to take, the camera angles chosen and any required props for mise-en-scene; this storyboard served as a rough guide for what the final shots when in chronological order should look like. However, when it came to filming, as a group, we collectively decided against using certain shots and adding in others as well; this was to ensure that not only was the trailer creative and adhered to the genre and audience, but also to allow for a more enigmatic and restrictive narrative. For this reason, I decided to re-draft our storyboard to show the changes that we decided to make when filming.

Amended Storyboard:

This first part of the storyboard shows the initial start to the trailer; the narrative for this first sequence did not change from the original storyboard, aside from a few of the images. We kept the photograph of the victim's face being circled to emphasise that she was the target, however we adapted the other two images (meat and maggots, heart in a jar) so that they were more suited to the Slasher genre. As shown above, we replaced these images with a picture of a knife, or weapon, to relate to the Slasher aspect. We also changed the third image to a sign saying 'CCTV in Operation' in order to coincide with the video camera aspect of the narrative. The remainder of shots remained the same.

This next section of the storyboard also remained quite similar to the original, whereby we only decided to change a few of the torture scenes. During the initial planning stages, we had over planned for these torture scenes so that we would have a greater variety to choose from; the final chosen ones are as indicated above. The gagging scene indicated in frame 1 and the finger breaking scene indicated in frame 7 were kept constant, the other scenes were additions or replacements.

We included the teeth removal clip shown in frame 4 in replacement of the nail ripping shot as during production, we could not edit the clip to look realistic using the resources that we had. 

Additionally, we added the blood spitting scene in frame 6 to adhere to common conventions of Slashers by incorporating more blood and gore; following on from this, we also included the bloody face clip of the victim to coincide with the slasher and gore aspect of the plot.

Finally, frame 7 shows the victims bloody hands being tied behind the chair; this was incorporated to further convey the idea that the victim had been 'captured' (hence the film title) and to also create the idea that she was helpless and weak, as commonly depicted in slasher horrors. 





The other torture scenes originally drawn on the first storyboard, such as the cigarette burning scene, were scrapped due to insufficient materials and resources meaning that we could not make the effect look authentic and thus, would have made the entire trailer more amateur looking. 

This final part of the storyboard details the last few shots of the ending of the trailer and also, details of the different titles that will be placed during editing. Whilst the clips themselves remained the same as planned on the original storyboard, we decided to remove a hallway scene which consisted of the victim running down a hallway, assumed to be chased by the killer. Although chase scenes are common in Slasher horrors, we decided to leave this out in order to leave the narrative more restricted and to create more enigma for the audience. 

Evaluation:

Overall, I feel that as a group, we managed to stick to our storyboard remarkably well despite the few changes that were made. However, once production is carried out and the final trailer is constructed in Final Cut, I feel that the improved and additional shots will make for a more innovative and successful Slasher horror trailer.