Story Blurb and Title

Blurb
Three Locations, Three Methods, Three Victims. Dawson Dunn, a retired police officer and now a private detective struggles as he has a case that could make or break his profession, and possibly his mental health.
In this Classic Epic, Dunn faces trial after trail as he chases after a psychotic serial murderer who is confident that he can break Dunn and his life, follow Dunn through this case to make all cases as Dunn and the mysterious Killer defy each other time and time again

Title: Fall of Justice

Tag Line: Down the alleyways of the city, there is no law

Our cast members

Producers

All three of us (Jamie Kirman, Lewis Hodson and myself) are all taken account for as partaking in the production of the film


Actors

Lewis Hodson - Detective Dawson Dunn, the main character.

Jake Jackson - The Unknown Suspect (Only his silhouette will be seen)

Ella Kirk - Samantha Scarlet, the main victim in the recent murder

Jamie Kirman and Myself - Posing as the two other murder victims during the flashback scenes


Camera & Lighting

I am in charge of camera and lighting because I am the most experienced with cameras and have some knowledge on getting good lighting positions.

Director & Sound

Jamie Kirman is in charge of directing the entire film opening and editing sound. He will  be deciding all the best ways for the scenes to be shot and how the actors should play through each scene. He will also be helping me by holding up the boom mic as I'm recording each scene which will give me some more space to work with the camera

Final Storyboards - Page 3

Final Storyboards - Page 3

Panels 1&2:

The first panel shows Dawson looking at the suspect board again as the camera zooms out from showing the opening titles before switching to Dawson walking through the woods looking for clues (which will be a tracking shot)

Panels 3&4:

Panel 3 will be the end of the flashback and will show Dawson standing outside an interrogation room. The fourth panel will show Dawson walking into the interrogation room, and slamming the door before walking over to the table

Panels 5&6:

Panel 5 will show the unknown suspect sitting at the other end of the desk, we will use specific lighting so that we cannot see the suspects face, more-so that all that is visible is a silhouette. The next panel will show Dawson throwing a file towards the suspect on the table which will then jump cut to Dawson sitting down at the table

Panels 7&8:

Panel 7 will show the suspect picking up the file and reading through it before quickly switching to the next panel which will be a close-up of Dawson's face with a serious expression before fading out, finishing the film opening

Final Storyboards - Page 2

Final Storyboards - Page 2

Panels 1&2:

Panel 1 will zoom into one of the pictures on the suspect board which will show the title of the film which will quickly zoom into the photo and the duration will last for a few seconds before panning across to one of the other photos, following the line of the strings before stopping on a photo of Dawson with a piece of paper stuck on the side which will have the information of the actor (Lewis Hodson) and who he's playing in the film opening

Panels 3&4:

Panel 3 will follow on from panel two, following the same transition as the last panel (following the connecting strings) which will land on a picture with the word "Classified" across it, with the piece of paper showing the character and name of the actor before repeating the process with the murder victim (Samantha Scarlet)

Panels 5&6:

The last 2 panels are of the production team (Jamie Kirman and myself) which will follow the introductory sequence the same as the actors introduction panels.

Final Storyboards - Page 1

Final Storyboard - Page 1:

Panels 1&2:

Panel 1 starts with Dawson sitting at his desk in his office with his head in his hands which is going to be a mid-shot of him before moving on to the next panel which is an extreme close-up of Dawson's face, more specifically his eye as it shows him closing his eyes painfully which will start a flashback. when Dawson shuts his eye it will be fast and will show a pained expression, as if remembering a bad memory, which, essentially, is going to be the flashback.

Panels 3&4:

Panels 3, 4 are going to be scenes of the flashback which will show two murder victims as a fixed shot which will be narrated over what happened very briefly (e.g. Person A, murdered with/by (insert death cause here) etc.) before moving onto the next victim. The first murder scene will be shown as an establishing shot whereas the second murder scene will be a mid-shot, just cutting off the top of the victims head and legs.

Panels 5&6:

Panel 5 is the last murder scene that is shown in the flashback which will be the most recent victim, Samantha Scarlet and her place of death, all of the murder scenes will be fixed shots and will be an establishing shot. Panel 6 will show Dawson looking at a suspect board, which will have various pictures with strings connecting them, this will be a fixed shot and Dawson's back will be facing the camera.

Panels 7&8:

Panel 7 shows a close up of the back of Dawson's head as he is still looking at the suspect board before moving onto the last panel in the first storyboard sheet which will be a zoom-in towards the suspect board which will show the titles for the film such as producers and actors etc.

Storyboards - the rough draft

Here's our rough story board sheet for our film opening:

We planned for it to start with the main character sitting in his office with his head in his hands as he thinks over the recent case he's been given which will then lead on to an extreme close up of the characters eye as he's seen to be closing his eye quite painfully (as if he was clenching his face and screwing it up) which is when the series of flashbacks will begin

the first panel explains how there will be a series of two different scenes of murder victims within the flashback, the second panel says how we will have the character standing in front of a suspect board before it moves on to the third panel which will zoom into the suspect board which will show the titles for the actors and the producing roles etc.

In the first panel after the titles have been shown, the next scene will show the character walking through the woods looking for clues on his case before the flashback ends and shows the character standing outside of an interrogation room.

For the last 2 panels, we'll have the character entering the interrogation room and slamming the door behind him, then he'll sit down and start talking before the camera fades out and the title is shown

This is our rough idea and has gone through a lot of editing before we ended up with our final neat storyboards

Our Target Audience Member Profile

Our target demographic is Males over 35, so we decided to interview our schools ICT teacher Mr. Healy who is a perfect subject as he is in our prime target social class (A/B) and fits the other categories for our demographics (Male, 35+):

We interviewed Mr. Healy about his interests, his opinions and his attitudes on different media related subjects and recorded his answers as information to give us an extremely loose idea on the psycho-graphics of our general target audience so we can be aware of what would seem to be fitting to our film opening and what shouldn't really be included so that we can make our film opening as good as it possibly can be.

Here are the results we got from the interview:

Music
Mr. Healy has said that he'll listen to pretty much anything, any genre of music, although he also said how he loves the old jazz-style music, more specifically preferred when it's included in older films that related to our genre, but commented on how he was slightly more interested in Jazz with some sort of a modern-techno twist to it, this sounds like something that would tie in with the electro-swing genre of music. He gave us a few examples in which the types of music he was talking about such as Bladerunner and the Matrix, the latter was highly leaning more towards the techno side of the music and how it creates a tense atmosphere.

Mr. Healy also made it specifically clear that he is not a fan of the more mainstream pop music such as the likes of Madonna or Britney Spears.

TV
The TV shows which appeal to Mr. Healy the most are detecive/deduction shows such as CSI or Elementary and has said how he detests programs that include unwanted or unnecessary information and events in them such as relationships included in a TV show which has no need for it.

Movies
Mr. Healy said that he's interested in action films as well as Film Noir, some examples he gave us of action films he liked were; Bladerunner, Indiana Jones and more specifically, films directed by Ridley Scott such as Alien etc.
Horror films don't particularly take his fancy, more specifically horror films which are shown to be highly unrealistic such as the supernatural style-films (such as the Paranormal Activity series or the Scream series)