Friday, 17 October 2014

Storyboarding: Narrative

Here are my initial ideas for a narrative:
  • Detective narrative - In this idea we get occasional shots of a police force both working out where the psycho killers are and then going to get them. The psycho killers would be the band in the main performance. It would link with the 'run, run away' lyrics, only it's the psycho killers that are running rather than a victim, as would be expected. At the end, the detective and his policemen would enter the performance room just too find the abandoned instruments. Then we could see the band walking away into the sunset. Exploring the idea from All These Things That I've Done by The Killers, I could place the sequence out of order.
  • My other narrative ideas explore how each of the band members become a 'psycho killer'. I have no definite ideas for this but we would perhaps see a victim annoy the killer and then the killer would approach menacingly, maybe having a shot of a shadow killing another shadow.
  • Another idea would be of the vocalist wandering around a town or school and seeing people who annoy him. For example we could see someone who's 'not polite'. There would then perhaps be a transition in the style of Right To Go Insane into the performance shot which would symbolise the vocalist's hidden thoughts or fantasies of being a psycho killer.
  • Another idea I have is of what I will call, The Hitchcock Shot. This would be an intertextual reference towards the film 'psycho'. The shot would be of a bath with the curtain drawn across with the silhouette of a woman taking a shower in it, then, the psycho killer would raise up from out of the bath and we would see the woman scream before the killer's silhouette kills her silhouette. Alternatively, I could do a take of this where the killer does not wield a knife but a microphone to make it a performance shot.
  • Another of my ideas is the Scooby Doo Corridor Shot. This adds an element of humour too the video as the killer chases a female victim through one door and out of another. Then, in true Scooby doo fashion it would end up with the victim chasing the killer and they would pause momentarily in the centre of the corridor, turn around, start again.

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