The story boards for the alternate beginning!

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Here are our story boards!

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Storyboards completed

Today we have completed the storyboards which should be posted soon.

When considering the two different ways we could have the girls death in the opening, me and Hannah decided to storyboard one variation of the opening each. Hannah concentrated on the hanging whereas I concentrated on the overdose scenes.

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One scene of our opening will require a reporter on the scene of the crime, since the body was found in the river in our narrative we set out to scout for the right riverbank setting. After deep thought the answer lied under our very noses.

In my hometown of Ixworth there is the perfect setting, pictured on the left is the bridge over the ixworth river on the public footpath route. I have found a picture on google images of one side of the bridge however there is one other angle we would like to look at before finalising any decisions on the setting for that one scene.

Alternative opening

We have been considering another opening to display the girls death. In this adaption we would show the girl hung by a rope suspended from the kitchen ceiling rather than having her on the floor of a bathroom. For this to be done we would show the articles on a kitchen table and the camera would pan up to show dangling legs. To do this we would have the actress perched on a chair on a counter. We would then go to a flashback then continue the shot from the waist up and she would be stood on the counter instead.
We will film both openings and consider both and use them in our evaluation.

Opening

The opening will show the 17 year old girl lying on the bathroom floor with pills and newspaper articles scattered around. As the camera pans up on the body there will be voice overs and flashbacks showing violence from friends and strangers, as well as psychiatric and police opinions. As the camera pans up more, the girls lifeless face is revealed.

Storyline

A 17 year old girl has been impersonating people online and leading people to make a fool of themselves, she has been doing this for 4 years now. Although recently she has been risking more than just pride to fool people into relationships with these fake people. To make things more 'fun' she decided to involve her closest friends.

However, the fun was cut short when her friend is due to meet her make believe boyfriend in an unfamiliar wooded area. After disappearing for two days her body is found in a nearby river. After months of investigation, the police stumble over records of previous text and instant messaging conversations with a mystery boyfriend. Later leads have the police locating the position of the fake boyfriend as the house of the dead girls best friend.

After several interviews, the 17 year old is accused of the murder of her best friend. With the evidence of their meeting arrangements against her along with her lack of explanation, she has to find a way to prove her innocence.

But there is more to her character, a dark past that could in fact provide a secret innocence to her actions, but before she has the chance to speak out, her regret and lack of dignity along with her new found lifestyle of violent abuse from both those she knew and strangers, grabs her and starts to take control.

At the lowest point of life she takes an overdose of pills, after viewing a collection of articles, as the history repeats itself in her final moments she writes a final statement suggesting she was innocent all along.

The police along with one of the girls friends later find clips of her past and realise not only was she innocent, but her family holds a much darker past explaining her twisted ways.

Welcome...

Hello there Sam and Hannah here, we are here to tell you about our new thriller opening, we have decided too call it Endurance this is because the main characters all go through a traumatic experience heightened by the media and endure the pain and suffering created through this. This blog will be updated each time we do something new to our thriller and the deadline is to try get it done by October 23rd 2009.
Thank you for reading.
xx