After gathering all my objects, and with shooting imminent, I played around with them on a piece of board to get a better idea of how I want the general formation of the 'set' to look once it's all together (bear in mind my actual background will be black).
This first image was my initial layout as I'd sketched it in my roughs, but somehow I wasn't pleased with how it looked. The addition of the pieces of bone and the Ouija board meant I had to rethink the layout, so I messed about further and settled on the next image.
I think the balance of objects is much nicer here; also the addition of the glasses works well. The next thing is to decide how all these objects will move as I lay them out, which will already be there when shooting begins, how long they'll remain in shot for and so on. I'll make a separate storyboard for this in order to have a clear idea in mind when it comes to shooting.
Another way to add depth to this idea, I feel, would be to hide the E4 logo in different areas so the audience have to spot them.
Places I can hide the logo:
- Inside the matchbox,
- among the pages of the book,
- appearing from behind the car,
- flickering beneath where the glass marker lies on the Ouija board,
- on one or more of the playing cards
If there's enough going on so that the audience might spot something new on a second viewing, rather than just building up to one big and obvious reveal, then the final outcome will be a lot more exciting as a whole.
