PRACTISE STORY BOARD TASK

For this task we observed four elements, mise en scene, shot types, sound and framing.
Aggie looked at the mise en scene element in the opening sequence to 'Back to the future' and mainly
listed all of the props that were captured in the footage of the film. Some examples of the props were 'a newspaper', 'a television' and 'a skateboard'. I also looked at the costume, as it is catergorised within the mise en scene element. We were only introduced to one character within the opening sequence we watched but he was wearing casual clothing. e.g trainers and jeans. Aggie also observed sound elements. Aggie found many different sound effects, such as ' television noise' and 'toaster pinging', nearly all of the sound from the opening sequence was diagetic noise.

Lauren looked at the framing of the sequence this was quite limited as the camera was continuously panning around the room so an object does not stay in the frame for more then a few seconds. The lady in the TV screen is shown to the left of the frame but is still the main focus of the shot. Throughout the scene any other object that is the main focus of the shot is shown prominently in the centre of the frame. Lauren also looked at the various shot types shown throughout, the panning of the room is shown as mostly mid shots meaning you can see more then one object throughout.

Ella looked at the sounds in the clip and the shot types. I found that the sound in the opening credits of the sequence was non-diagetic sound of clocks ticking. This sound then fading out and the shot of ticking clocks came into frame. The ticking then became diagetic. A radio then came into shot and diagetic sound of the man talking on the radio was played. The camera then panned round to a coffee maker and the shot was accompanied by the diagetic sound of coffee bubbling. The camera then panned around to a television of which was displaying a news reader. There was a midshot of the newsreader. The camera then panned into a full screen shot of her on tele. There was diagetic sound of her talking. In this opening sequence there was many midshots, high angle shots and low angle shots. There was an extreme close up of the dials on the amps.

This is an image of the storyboard made by Ella Stewart for the 'Back to the Future' sequence.