StoryboardingBy Megan and Seyi

Rough DraftThis is our rough draft. We have included the camera shots, lighting and sounds that we intend to use in our film opening. When we started doing our storyboard draft we decided the camera shots and movement that we will use. By doing a draft we could change our ideas with what fits and what doesn’t. We found that some of our original ideas, such as camera angles, didn’t work so we could then change it.

Final Draft

• This is our final draft. When we came to draw it up we found that some things like the transitions didn’t work. we also found that we had missed a frame out towards the end. By doing the rough draft first we got a good idea of what it would look like so, it allowed us to make improvements when we drew up our final draft.

1) This is a 4 second frame showing the film production studio logo: palace productions

2) Dissolved into the next frame, is a 5 second frame of an extreme close up shot of the main characters hair being brushed by a hand unknown to the audience at this point, thus breaking a convention of the introduction of characters. As specified under notes, there is the diegetic sound of laughing to set a more uplifting atmosphere. Another convention is broken, there are no actors’ names, in order to keep the audience focused on the storyline rather than the people acting in it.

3) Here, there is a straight cut into a 5 second frame of an establishing shot of the room they are in, to reveal the characters involved in the scene. Most establishing shots in fantasy/thriller films are shot in the outdoors (eg the wolverine), ours being indoors makes it unique.

3)This frame is a two shot. We decided not to do an over-the-shoulder shot here in order for the audience to see the relationship between the two characters and connotes togetherness. It also helps show how comfortable she is at home. It also allows the audience to read the expressions on their faces at the same time and reduces the complexity in the film opening.

4) These two close up shots are dissolved into each other to compare the character’s feelings in both settings. When school is mentioned to her in the first frame, she gradually becomes upset. In the next frame, she is upset because she is in the next setting: school. There is a soft focus in both frames to show her blocking everything out, once school is mentioned.

5) This establishing shot is used to emphasize how comfortable the character is in a school environment and show her anti social behaviour. Her classmates are having fun while she is lonely in the back.

6) There is a straight cut to a scene where the character is slumped on her table, isolated from her classmates to show how uncomfortable she is. There is a soft focus in order for the audience to keep their focus on her. The sound of her classmate’s laughing and screaming is reduced in order to show she is blocking them out of her mind.

Here there is a straight cut into what she is drawing, which is the ruin. Then a cross cut back and forth from the picture into the shot of the actual ruin. When the last shot of the drawing is shown, the bell rings to show school being dismissed. This puts a halt to the mystical music from the frames before, showing she is out of her imagination.

Rather than using a handheld throughout the next frames, we decided to use a canted angle for this frame to show her uneasiness. It is later put in a normal angle to show her becoming more comfortable in this environment, although handheld is still being used.

Within these two frames the character notices the ring. However, the long shot is used for the audience to spot the ring first and to show new found relaxation in the character.

There is then a close up of her picking up the ring, as the frame before shows her reaching for then ring. This then leads to a slow pace tracking shot of her picking the ring and lifting it until it reaches her face, which is shown in the next frames. There is a mix of natural sounds diegetic sounds (e.g shuffling of leaves, wind, etc) and whimsical non diegetic music for this outdoor setting.

To seem as if everything is normal and catch the audience of guard, there is a 5 second long shot of the character simply admiring the ring. However, there is a 2 second interruption of a blank screen, is edited in in order to bring the element of surprise and show something magical had happened.

There is a shot of the ruin without her in it. Here the audience is told she disappears. The film title is then dissolved into the picture. This will be easier because both frames are similar.

Extreme close up