Storyboards and Shot List for 'The Babysitter'

Over this weekend I worked on my storyboards as we were approaching our shoot date. These were quite different for me as its one of the first pieces I've worked on with dialogue so writing that into the storyboards and planning that out was a new challenge for me. I started with the script and made annotations on that of how I was going to plan out the shots. After this I printed off some storyboard templates to get started, the opening scene was fairly self explanatory.

For the next couple of scenes, I came up with what I thought were some quite interesting shots. I wanted to use the track and dolly to roll towards the fridge so that the fridge door could swing into frame and we could then plant certain things in the audiences head about the restaurant number and the babysitter leaflet. Also when reading the script I felt it was very much Rebecca goes one place talks on the phone, Rebecca goes to another place talks on the phone. So for the scene where she calls the restaurant I thought it would be visually more interesting to have her walk and talk towards the camera on the track and dolly.

One of the things I wanted to include a lot of was close ups, it was important to me that you could read the emotion on the characters face. I decided for the main telephone call between Jack and Rebecca it would add a lot more to the tension to have the camera slowly move in closer towards Rebecca until she finally realises something is wrong here.

Finally for the last section of the piece I thought it would be nice in the last shot, if we could show Jack was lurking in the shadows all within one shot. I decided to start on Rebecca falling to her knees and then the camera would pan round and down to show the bloody bed and child and then to pan up and round to the window to show Jack outside, waiting. 

After I had worked on my storyboards, the next step was a shot list. It was brought up in a production meeting that Abby would create the shot list to help her when it came to filming, once I saw it I felt it was lacking in detail so I made one for my own.

In regards to my shot list, its fairly straight forward. Its just something to help me quickly and efficiently give answers to any questions the crew may have about how we may get a certain shot.