Storyboards for our film opening - Imperium

1. Storyboards – ImperiumBy Amy Balmer, Callum Fisher and Jack Francis

2. Basic idea-
• Synopsis - A Mob boss plans to end racism in his town, one bullet at a
time.
• The first two minutes – consists of the backstory of our main
character (Wilson) while he’s walking in a village, narration is used to
tell his backstory, he then walks into an old/abandoned barn, we are
greeted with another man sat down tied to a chair, a detective
(Detective McCoy), Wilson begins to interrogate him about his racism,
him and his associate (McKenzie Gray) end up punching him to
extract information and eventually killing him with a bullet to the
head, as soon as the shot is fired, the shot is cut to black and the
titles begin.

3. Rough Draft -

4. Feedback -
Our rough draft received some criticism, we were told to experiment
with different shots, in order to get a different view on the film as well
as be more creative in the editing.
We amended the criticism’s by adding more shots to our final draft and
decided that we will experiment on the actual day with a variety of
shots, so in post production we have an extensive amount of shots to
choose from and use for our final piece.
For example – for one of our narration about the detective it was said
the audience may get board with the amount of shots we used for that
particular line of script, so we added more to ensure the audience
doesn’t get bored.

5. Final Draft (1/2) – Analysis
Introducing the audience to
our film with a studio logo to
inform and educate, and then
an establishing shot to set the
scene, this allows the audience
to gain some knowledge of the
film to follow.
We then slowly reveal our
main character (Wilson), this
creates some Enigma and will
slightly excite the audience
seeing as he looks like a
powerful character for the
film.
We see him walk into a barn where
his face is finally revealed, narration
will going on during a freeze frame
while he is being revealed, so the
audience is being informed about
the back story of the universe/
character and to make sure they
know it is about him.
Here we are greeted with the Detective.
This creates even more enigma as we do
not know why he is in there. The master
shot is used well as it sets the scene in
the new location and lets us know who is
involved in the scene. The over the
shoulder shots let the audience know
who is talking and to show that both
characters have important roles in the
film because they are both having equal
time in the film.

6. Final Draft (2/2) – Analysis
In this shot we introduce the detective
by using narration and a freeze frame,
this is effective as what the audience
get is purely information about the
character (the detective) which is
informing them, the shot is also frozen
so all the audience can see it is him,
this means any information read in
the narration will be purely associated
with him.
In this sequence of shots We use a
newspaper which we will create
ourselves to give the audience some
back story about the character, as we
are doing this using a different media
text, the audience will like the change
and they will also have a visual aid,
along with the narration.
Here we use shot
reverse shot which we
learnt earlier in the year
to easily present a
conversation to the
audience.
Here we have the final part of our
opening where Wilson pulls a pistol
on the detective and fires a shot (in
which the audience does not see as
the shot cuts to black and all we
hear is the gun shot), this leaves the
audience with enigma, we then cut
to titles to inform the audience
about the titles of the film.