Storyboards

During the story boarding we decided to use these particular shots as we felt it would give the audience a clear understanding of the play as it would clearly establish the two sides and also the main characters within the play, for example we often use close ups of the main character Titus as he has a lot of lines in this scene so this establishes who the speaker is. Tamora in the play is also going through a painful scene as her son is about to be killed as the father wants revenge for his fallen sons in the war, we use close ups and high angle shots of Tamora as we want her to look weak and sad to give of the sympathetic effect to the audience. Another way we wanted to establish the power balance in this scene is through using low angles shots of Titus, by doing we was able to make him look like the most powerful person in the room and also make him look like he is in command of everybody in the room. In the scene the dead bodies of the fallen are brought into by the Romans, to show them as weak. We also use a pan at the start when the characters are coming into the tomb, we do this so that it can help establish the area so that the audience can get a good feel of the room and so it sets the right atmosphere for the audience, also by using this pan it helps show other characters in the tomb so it helps establish who these characters are early on. A long shot is also used on the captured sons to show them in chains, this is simply so that it shows them as weak and small as they are showed clearly on their knees about to be killed and the guard towering over them.