skating storyboard
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Shot / Visuals #1 Duration Camera Instructions SoundtrackDialogue / Story Comment
0.03’’ WS shot ice rink fromspectator’s POV
Dance music /mixwith skating rinkambience
No dialoguein this titlesequence
Standard establishing WSto show location - happy icerink people having fun.Establishes equiibrium(Todorov)
Shot / Visuals #2 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
Story0.03’’ Pan across rink to find
Karen in LONG SHOT(LS)
Music continues andwe hear Karen talking& ambient noise ofrink - laughter/iceblades on ice
Karen chatting about theskating - nowritten dialogue
This establishes Karen asone of the main charactersin the story - but what sortof story is it?
Shot / Visuals #3 Duration
Camera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /Story
Comment
0.02’’ LONG SHOT Gary Music continues in b/gFADE UP ambientnoise of rink & Karen'svoice
Karen's voice attracts Gary -she is laughing
Shot / Visuals #4 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.03 MID SHOT Karenlooking camera right
Only ambient noisesof skates on ice - nomusic - hollow echoedlaughter
Karen sees Gary and thinkshe is laughing at her
Shot / Visuals #5 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.03 MID SHOT Gary beingcheeky to Karen as shechases him
as above with slowmix back to dancemusic
Suggestion of evil intent byGary – (this is a red herring)
Shot / Visuals #6 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.04 WS shot ice rinkCamera pans andzooms to find wherethe scream is comingfrom
Sound of skatercrashing into the crash board around the rink& a scream. CUT toSeries music -muscular with heavyback beat
Sets up tease - is this a romcom love story or somethingelse?
Shot / Visuals #7 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.02 Camera fins MS Garyin a different cornerclearly not part of anymalevolent action
Everything seemed normal– scream establishes genreof crime drama and not rom-com.
Shot / Visuals #8 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.03 CU Karen look ofhorror
series music - guitars,back beat, horns andpersussion
Karen has witnessed aterrible murder on the icewhich we do not see
Shot / Visuals #9 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.03 Canted WS of groupwith Karen in shockand pointing
series music pluscrying / ambulancesirens/ etc
Canted angle showsdisequilibrium
Shot / Visuals #10 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.02 CU Skaters boots atdifferent angles
CUT Pictures to majorbeat of music
Quick close Ups of skatersboots cut with music toshow increase of tension
Shot / Visuals #11 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.02 DVE title FORENSIC UKzooms out of midframe to full frame.Super title on FORENSIC UK intercutshots of skatingbootsand blades
Guitars - upbeat leadriff with throbbingbase line
Start of graphics sequencefor the crime series calledFORENSIC UK
Shot / Visuals #12 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.03 CU of skate blade –FREEZE FRAME – addin post prod star filterflashes & red colour +DVE star explosionDISSOLVE to
Add horns with seriestheme music,pulsating beat.
Climax of title sequence tohook viewers - on somechannels there would be acommercial break at thispoint
Shot / Visuals #13 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.04WS Skating rink withskaters movingtowards the crimescene
MUSIC punctuatestitle graphicsslow mix out of musictosound of skates on ice
The actual crime has notbeen observed yet - the ideais to create tension andsuspense and prepare theaudience for graphic scenesof body laceration from asharp ice skate blade (as inUS forensic series)
Shot / Visuals #14 DurationCamera Instructions Soundtrack Dialogue /
StoryComment
0.05 Freeze Frame CU Feetin Mortuary
Just ambient soundsof ice rink - no musicno alarms, slow mix to diegetic sound ofopening shot of thedrama
Getting back to the reality ofthe crime and horror of thedeath