Storyboard

Yesterday in class my group and I began our storyboarding process and the first day that we are planning to shoot is this upcoming Sunday after we both get off work. 

In order to be prepared to storyboard with him, I did some research ahead of time of different storyboarding techniques and ways that people have created them. I wanted to understand how many of the shots needed to be shown and how much camera movement is shown. On the following website, it shows 10 famous storyboards ranging from Star Wars to Psycho. I thought this was particularly interesting as it showed different techniques that popular and critically acclaimed films took.

Along with this, I found a video on YouTube which explained the use and practicality of storyboards. What I found much more important was the actual comparison of the storyboard and the idea behind them paired with the scenes from the movie. This was done with Mission Impossible and the Indian Jones and not only translated really well but looked quite cool. (Video below).

In class today we reworked some major themes and ideas for our project. We are still keeping it character centered but we will be dealing with darker lighting in most shots now and we will be changing the actors to two males, Jonathan and I, so it is easier to control the conditions of the project and everything that we need to do.

Above is the beginning of our storyboard and it begins with an establishing long shot of the character and a prominent dark environment to the left of a lamp that will be used repeatedly in the opening. The shots that follow use close-ups of objects and people that keep the motion but are displaying the name of that person. We will use the names of the people shown in order (when I'm on camera my name is shown next when Jonathan is on camera his name is shown after). Besides that, we are also defining another prominent environment that will be used to show a disagreement between the two characters and we are establishing that a voiceover will be used to move the opening along and this will be done by the initial character shown.

Moving forward from this we will continue to work on the storyboard next class and continue the establishment of the story along with it.