I have a draft storyboard that was drawn last term, so the first thing I think I need to do is to refine the storyboard. Since I wanted to render the atmosphere of horror, the camera language probably helped a lot with the level of horror. 

So, I’m trying to break the initial storyboard into detail. First of all, the story has to have a beginning, where the protagonist finds the hotel and enters, but some strange things happened in the process. And these things arouse fear to affect the audience.

For the entering hotel part, I referred to my favorite Music Video ODDINARY made by JYP Entertainment. Part of it is because I admire their storyboards and want to try them by my own.

Part One – Entering Hotel

Character walks to the door of hotel.

The character looks into the hotel. The audience can feel there might be something wrong within the hotel through the facial expression of the character. At the same time, I put the position of the character on the left side of the scene and left blank space on the right side and her back to create the effect of negative space. To show the unknown in which something could suddenly appear at any moment.

The view of what the character saw. Thing falling down. The thing might be related to the whole scene. I want it to serve as a hint to enhance the horror atmosphere.

A close-up of the character’s face show she is scared by the falling. Also would be a jump scare which coordinates with the sound effect.

She covered her mouth with her hands in surprise. Then she suddenly realized something and wanted to see if there was someone behind her. She finds nothing and then goes into the hotel.

The neon light with the words “HOTEL” flashed as there is a short circuit on the transmission line, and the words suddenly changed to “THEOL” in the flash. Theol. stands for theology. This is also a place that makes the feeling clear to the audience of there is something wrong with the place.

Then I want to shoot the scene of the door closing without the character in the scene. The audience can read that the character already went into the hotel from the camera language.