Storyboard planning and storyboard

Before drawing my storyboard I decided to make a list of all the shots I needed to do so I would know exactly what order they need to go in:

Establishing shot of the outside of the house

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View from the curtains - Medium long high angle shot of rachel sitting on the sofa - low light
View from the fireplace - Long walking room shot of rachel walking to the door
Over the shoulder shot of rachel looking at the newspaper, picks the newspaper up
Over the shoulder shot of rachel opening the door - Lex says "Surprise!"
Over the shoulder shot of Rachel saying "I'm so glad you're here" Lex walking into the house.

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Close up of Lex's face - "By the way I ordered us chinese, should be here any minute"
View from the fireplace - long walking room shot of Lex and Rachel walking through the living room - Rachel says "Have you read this about the murders?" Lex says "They still haven't found the guy then?"

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View from patio doors - Long shot of girls walking into dining room
Long shot of girls in the dining room - Lex says "Do we even know any of the girls that have been murderer? It's probably just a story made up to get peoples minds off of swine flu." Rachel says "Yeah. That must be it."

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View from garage - Long low angle shot of killer walking up the drive way
Close up of hand opening the gate
Long shot of killer walking through the gate, past the kitchen window and up to the patio doors. From this view we see Rachel leave the dining room and go into the kitchen to get glasses and stuff, she comes back and starts pouring the wine.

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Long Shot of Lex saying "Oh my god.. The last girl he killed was Sarah Lane? She was in my English! How did i not know this?!"
The killer walks past the patio doors in the background.
Long Shot of Rachel saying "I know, its really scary"
Close up of Rachel "I guess it's not just a story after all." The doorbell rings
Long shot of Lex saying "Yes! Food! I'm starving."
Long shot from the POV of the killer outside the patio doors whilst the girls walk out of the room arguing.

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POV handheld shot of the killer opening the patio doors, he walks in and looks around. He hears the girls coming back and runs into the study.
View from kitchen door - Long shot of girls coming back in the room with chinese. Pan to the patio doors being slightly open and pan back to the girls. Lex says "Rach.. Did you open the patio doors?" Rachel says "I don't think so.." Lex says "You must have, who else would it have been?" She walks over to the table.
Over the shoulder shot of Lex picking up the newspaper and saying "The Intruder?" Lex goes to walk into the lounge with food.
Medium close up of Rachel looking worried.
Medium shot of her picking up cutlery from the table and walking into the lounge.

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Long shot from the view of the wall planner in the office, the killer is moving around the room looking for something
View from the cupboards - Long Shot of the killer picking up a picture
Over the shoulder shot of the picture
View from the cupboards - Long Shot of the killer dropping the picture

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View from the study door - medium long shot - the two girls sitting down eating look towards the door. Rachel says "What was that!" Lex says "What the hell did that come from the study?" She gets up and starts to walk towards the study.
Rachel leans forward and says "Are you crazy?! That could be the.."
Over the shoulder shot of Lex turning around saying "Come on!"
View from the study door - medium long shot - Lex and Rachel walk towards the door
Close up of Lex's hand opening the door

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View from the cupboards - Long shot of the girls entering the room, pan to the open window, pan back to the girls who walk into the room towards the window.
View from the window - Two Shot of girls. Rachel says "Someone was in here.." Lex says "Okay, maybe you were
right.." Rachel says "We need to call the police."

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View from the cupboard - Long shot of the girls walking out of the room
Over the shoulder high angle shot from the POV of the killer in the dining room.
Low angle shot of the killer from where the girls are standing.
Over shoulder shot of the girls screaming
Extreme close up of the killers eyes.

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I then drew my storyboard in detail (Click to enlarge)




























I have added a lot of shots, possibly making my thriller opening longer than it is supposed to be. However, by giving myself more shots I believe it will give me more variety to chose from to put into my thriller opening, and I think it would be better to have too much filmed that I can cut out rather than having not enough and needing to re-film.