Story Board

This is our first draft of our story board. When designing our story board, we have decided to use Longacre's theory, in order to help create our own model for analysis of texts. Longacre's theory consists of 8 stages, below is a list of these stages and how we have applied some of them to our own trailer planning:

Aperture: The "once upon time" opening- Girls happy and excited on the way down to holiday house

Exposition: Containing vital information about time, place, local colour and participants- arrive at house and talk about stories they have heard about the house

Inciting moment: The moment when things start moving in a story, when the predictable movement of the exposition is broken into- Begin to play ouija board

Developing conflict: When the action intensifies- lights turn black and fast, action shots begin

Climax: When matters come to a head and confrontation and "final showdown" become inevitable- one girl is chased into the woods

Denouement: A crucial final event occurs and makes resolution possible- girl falls to ground and stange thing approaches her

Final suspense: Details of the resolution are finally worked out

Conclusion: Some sort of satisfactory end is arrived at


The purpose of this story board was just to give us a rough idea of how our shots flow and whether or not we need to change it. After looking at this story board we were able to see that we needed to add more shots to our shot list, otherwise the trailer will not flow well.