Storyboard
What a storyboard means?Having a storyboard is vitally important in determining the success and quality of your movie. A storyboard is simply a sequence of images that tell what the scenes that your movie will go through. Your movie flow will follow what the storyboard depicts.
Examples of storyboards
This is an example of a storyboard, of one of Alfred Hitchcock's films Psycho (1960) that was given to me in my media studies class.
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Why is a storyboard important?
Clarity during development - By having a storyboard, the production team will be clear of what is expected of them and they will have a clear overall picture of what the whole movie will look like.
Improved movie quality - A movie will be enjoyable when the camera angles are correct. That is when the zooming fits in nicely and the characters are properly portrayed. This is integral also for animation productions. So when all this is shown on the storyboard and errors are corrected, the final movie will be more enjoyable to the audience.
Cost reduction - Without a proper storyboard, the whole scene of a movie needs to be redone when it is deemed unsatisfactory. But with a storyboard, the scenes are laid out on paper and unsatisfactory ones can be redrawn using a new storyboard even before the movie goes into production. This saves time and resources.
My Groups Storyboard Plan (for the prelim task)
This is a storyboard a member of my group made and it isn’t the best of drawings, but this gives an indication of what the film sequence is going to involve. What this storyboard explains is of a man, who wants his money back from an individual. But little did he know that the scared individual (man) hasn't got his money. So this creates a serious problem.
Scripts
What a film script means?
A script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing.
Examples of a film scripts
Below is an example of a film script, of 'The Bourne Identity'.
DARKNESS. THE SOUND OF WIND AND SPRAY.
MUSIC. TITLES.
EXT. OCEAN -- NIGHT
The darkness is actually water. A SEARCHLIGHT arcs across
heavy ocean swells. Half-a-dozen flashlights -- weaker
beams -- racing along what we can see is the deck of an
aging FISHING TRAWLER.
FISHERMEN struggling with a gaff -- something in the water --
A HUMAN CORPSE.
EXT. FISHING BOAT DECK -- NIGHT
THE BODY sprawled there. The Sailors all talking at once --
three languages going -- brave chatter to mask the presence
of death --
SAILOR #1
-- Jesus, look at him --
SAILOR #2
-- what? -- you never saw a dead
man before? --
SAILOR #3
-- look, look he was shot --
(nudging the body--)
SAILOR #1
-- don't, don't do that --
SAILOR #2
-- he's dead, you think he cares? --
SAILOR #1
-- so have some respect -- it's a --
(stopping as--)
THE BODY MOVES! -- convulsing -- coughing up sea water -- the Sailors -- freaked -- jumping back -- standing there, as --
THE MAN begins to breathe.
My Group Film Script (for the prelim task)
A male walks into a room (in a angry mood) where a female is located.
Seun
-- Where's my money !!! --
Sandra
-- I don't know ??? --
Seun
--If you don't have my money by 24 hours, you know what going to happen to you !!! --
Sandra
--SHOCKED reaction--
This is my groups own film script (for the prelim task). The reason why it is short, is because the prelim task only lasts no longer than 1-2mins. As it only needs show required media aspects, such as 'shot reverse shot'.
Why a film script is important?
A film script is important because it allows the film stars, director, etc to know what is expected of them and they will have a clear overall picture of what the whole movie will look like. But most importantly film stars are occasionally allowed to go against the script and say something that not on it. Meaning film scripts are flexibly, just a indication of the narrative.
This thriller film is all about a great white shark that has be menacing a small island and a police chief, and marine scientist and a fisherman have set out to stop it. This films was directed Steven Spielberg and has one of the most iconic sounds in thriller film history. The music that is getting played in the opening of the film by John Williams is one of the most iconic sounds in film history. The pitch of the music starts of very low, almost a muffle sound, and the rhythm is the music is slow before it starts to speed up a bit. This is to create a sense of tension in the film and leaving the audience in a frame of mind where they are thinking ‘What is going on?’ ‘What is going to happen?’ in there next scene at their fire camp, there is dialogue and people socialising with each other and the only music you can hear is the one of the playing the harmonica and we go to the next scene and see a male and a female going skinny dipping, but on the girl gets in the water and that when new dramatic music begins to play. Whilst the girl is swimming the camera shows something coming from underneath her and it camera is at the shark point of view and that’s how the audience knows something bad is going to happen. Then we start to hear music as the shark gets closer to the girl, and as the shark the closer and you can feel the tension in the music, and when the shark finally gets the girl at first the music stops as she goes down into the water. Then as she starts to get dragged around and begins to scream, the music comes back on again and as she gets pulled back into the water the music stops and you can only hear the sound of the ocean. This shows that if not for the music the audience wouldn’t have known that she was in trouble, and on the music helped us to know. 
Conspiracy thrillers (also known as ‘paranoid thrillers’) are generally about journalists or amateur investigators who get themselves mixed up in conspiracies which go all the way to the top. These are often used to “recreate” what might have happened during a historical event. The protagonist often struggles to uncover the conspiracy and contain ‘man-in-peril’ stories (very rarely ‘woman-in-peril’) and are similar to detective stories.
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To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of not less than 18 years. 
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) born in Leytonstone, London, England, the second son and youngest of three children of William Hitchcock, was on of the best British film director, producer and cameo appearance actor. He led the way for many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood.
