PLAN

Storyboard

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For our 2 minute PG rated title sequence we are planning to incorporate an adventure genre with a hint of childish comedy. The adventure we are using stems from influence of Childrens comic books such as SpiderMan and Batman. The type of comedy we are incorporating are blatent gags as we want a PG audience of mainly children to be able to understand the jokes. For example we would use over the top costumes and querky props rather than balaclavas and pitch black costume, which would not only be too serious for a PG audience but hard to understand as they would not completely understand why the characters are dressed as they are.
This picture of Marvel ComicBook hereos is an illustration of the kind of costumes we will be following.
The Storyboard
The sequence will open with the starry night sky and the camera will then move onto the book. Or an alternative beginning (if we can't acheieve a starry night) will be to start in a dark room and imitate stars as the camera pans down onto a torchlit old book. The closed book itself will be ancient looking and without a name, just a picture of a Pyramid with an open eye looking outwards towards the viewer. The book will open as the camera stays in a stationary position, Birdseye View, and the viewer will be able to read the story. Before they have time to start reading however the voice over will kick in and begin to recite the ancient story. The voice over will be dark and mysterious, imitating The 'Optimus Prime' voice over in the film 'Transformers.' Although there is no way that we could possibly re-create such a deep robotic voice we will use garageband to deepen our original voice over. As the book flicks through its pages the story will be read out to the viewer, the history of the world and what the current situation is. As we are using an old book our story will be set in a historical world where violence is rife all over the land. The story will explain how one man has risen above the rest to harness the violence all over the world and use it to conquer the universe. The camera will then zoom out from the book and blur. It will then come back into focus in a real life scene where the Prince Disreali (The Bad Guy) is drinking from a goblet in his throne, or something of equal notoriety. It will then slide back into the book and carry on through the story.The only hope to keep world freedom for the innocent is for a band of Superhereos to form and find the book that holds the power to defeat the 'bad guy.' These characters will then have two pages of the book each, set out like top trump cards. Just as it did with Prince Disreali each character will have their own real life action shot brought into the book through different transitions. The name of the three superheroes are 'Buster,' 'Merlin' and 'Barry.' As the last character is explained the book will flick through some last pages and leave the story with an air of mystery so the audience wants to watch on. The book will then slam closed and the name of the film will slam down on top. The name of the film is 'Merlin, Buster, Barry and the Magic Key.'
Props: We are going to open the title sequence with an ancient looking book to give the same effect that Shrek did when introducing the story. As well as having the book explaining the plot we will also use a deep, dark voice over to read the story aloud.
Goblet/Old looking glass for bad guy to drink out off, Red Wine in to make it look like blood
Throne for him to sit on
Table
Grapes
Costumes - Old looking
Research
we brainstormed ideas for our piece such as:

• Comic Book
• Ancient book, as a narrator narrates the story
• Prism/Key for the symbol
• Narrator has a deep warm voice to set the tone for the audience (Children)
• Super Hero Characters
• Ideas for credits
• Costumes
• Mise-en-scene
• Camerawork - A thought to the beginning of the camerawork for example a starry night sky