During pre-production in our film, as cinematographer I was responsible for creating the storyboard. I wanted to include a shot that starts by showing a 'dead' body on a bench, with the chess piece on top. Then, the shot would cut and reappear closer, showing more of the chess piece and repeating that once more to create an extreme close up of the piece. When filming, we disregarded this idea and instead replaced it with something else in order to save time and create a more horror visual.
My original idea on the story board
While filming, my group decided it would be best to change this idea into a shot using editing effects instead of cinematography effects to achieve the horror aspect. Although, we did replace this scene with just a chess piece, instead of on top of a body. This is because we didn't have enough time to show anymore murders done by the villain, so it would be out of context to add a random dead body with no explanation. Although we still took three individual clips, the editor placed a black screen in between them instead of just gradually moving closer.
Chess Piece Farther Away
Back to Chess Piece, Close-up
The idea conveyed by the editor here is to have the black screen flashing in between the close up shots which symbolizes the black with the theme of death and mystery. Even though the storyboard had constant changes to it or was just disregarded, I think my group gained a lot of insight on how important it is to express our ideas fully during the pre-production process.
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