Constructing the Storyboard

Once the research was completed we could begin to work on the plan for what we wanted our trailer to look like. For this, we needed a synopsis and a storyboard. At present we do not have a title for the film nor do we have any names for the characters, but we decided that at this stage specifics like that were not the most important thing - what should come before who. (For details on what is actually going on, see the synopsis).

Here is what our storyboard looks like:

 After the company titles having finished opening the trailer, the audience is first introduced to the mother and her daughter. We see pictures on the wall of them as a family. The main communication point here is the idea of the daughter being safe when she is with her mother. The dialogue opens with the mother talking to her daughter introducing the idea of her needing to go to a mental health care facility.

Whilst the mother's speech remains constant for the first third to half of the trailer (depending on the exact duration of the various flashbacks that we want to show here), the trailer then moves to show a series of flashbacks, from the daughter talking to her therapist to her having a mental breakdown when she comes into contact with a vehicle.

The trailer cuts back to where it started: in the living room. We see the mother show her daughter a leaflet about the mental health care centre where, seeing as her therapist had not succeeded in getting through to her, she will be sent to receive proper treatment for her PTSD. The trailer will transition through the leaflet to a teary goodbye scene at the care centre, and here the mother's dialogue will end - there will be strong inference in this moment that the daughter is leaving her mother behind, thus the safety felt at the beginning will no longer be there to protect her.

The second 'half' of the trailer shows the daughter inside the care centre. It opens the care centre showing her be introduced to someone else who has just been introduced to the centre. While we want their initial meet to be awkward as both of them are struggling mentally, they manage to get along. Within this sequence of them together, they come across a door that denies them entry, making the daughter slightly suspicious. It then cuts to a scene in a medical bay, here we see the daughter on a hospital bed  - it is implied that she is receiving medical tests and that since arriving this has been somewhat frequent, enough to at least make her suspicious.

The trailer cuts back now to the room whose door is titled 'no entry', though this time the daughter is without her friend. We see her walk through the door this time. Whilst inside, she is seen to investigate a filing cabinet and pull different files out. Whilst we do not learn what she discovers there, we know that whatever it is is enough to scare her. She runs out of the room, but is clumsy enough to leave a telltale sign that someone has been in there.

The trailer then cuts to her trying to explain the mysterious situation to her friend - though we do not hear what she has discovered, we learn enough that they think something is wrong. (Whilst a change of clothes implies that this scene is later on) we then see the two of them making a move to try and leave the healthcare centre. When they come into contact with one of the scientists, the two of them try to run away. We do not, however, see how this scene plays out. The trailer ends here, cutting to the film title and the release date.