Storyboarding

During the storyboarding process, our group (Me, Georgia, Emma and Akshay) decided that we didn't have enough time within allocated lessons as we were also studying various films alongside our coursework. We decided therefore, that we would use our frees to storyboard and plan our idea. 

We quickly crafted our plot in a specific way, we each wrote our own rough plot idea in our group, and then read each others, before deciding on a final exact plot. This was incredibly useful as we then had a good opportunity to decide who's ideas were better, and to draw on various pieces from each plot i.e. my idea of having a gang affiliated with the Femme Fatale.

As far as storyboarding goes, we all decided to sit together and bounce ideas off each other as we went along. We also decided to split the 5 minutes short film into different scenes and files on the powerpoint. We sectioned these into subtitled boxes i.e. editing, camerawork etc and filled them in as we went along. This was very useful as we could go back and edit them as we needed to. 

In the session on the 7th Feb, we had 2 hours of which we finished our third scene. Our initial plan was to be ready to film by the 18th of Feb. We started an Excel document in which we both calculated the amount of seconds for each shot, as well as how many seconds we had left, we allowed ourselves more time for each shot, and will alter this at the end. In our group today, we planned out a series of montage shots in which our 'Anti-Hero' will be surveying some 'strange' occurance(s). I personally suggested the idea of our Anti-hero steeping out from the police stattion, with the camera positioned behind him - creating a silhouette. I also suggessted he get a cigarette out, a classic convention of Film Noir's, as well as a location idea near my house. There is an alley which backs onto some garages which could be an interesting place to hold the 'drug deal gone bad'. When thinking of locations, we found that the chances of borrowing a bar would be slim to none, we had no links, and pubs don't close till the early hours of the morning, therefore I decided to offer my Dad's café as a similar place that we can adapt to look how we want to the finer details such as decor on the wall and mise-en-scene objects/notes/clocks etc.

So far, the storyboarding has taken 3/4 sessions to plan and we still have not finished. We had the idea of beginning to plan the script, and decided between us that we wouldn't have much dialogue within the film, and would make all lines actually spoken concise and count.

He moves, they move - turn taking - chess - name reference?

27/2/2013 

After filming certain sections of the film and getting some experience under our belts, we did stray slightly from the storyboard so as to accommodate new spontaneous ideas, as well as to become more flexilbe with time, and failing light.

I opted to draw the pictures for the storyboard, of which we planned to scan in and add to the storyboard before putting them on our blogs. Here are some examples of my 'Alley Scene' illustrations.