STORYBOARDING

WEEK 1

We got started with learning and understand shots from establishing to extreme closeups, and their significants to viewers . I chose lost in the woods as it was simple to visualise and varied in settings and locations. I started off doing a character design as seen below but unfortunately it did not seem fitting, I believed he was too larger for his given description but I kept certain elements such as the his hair and face shape.

I proceeded to breakdown the script lines into three main elements: level of closeup, setting/location and character positioning, with matching references for each. this allowed me to clearly visualise the story before getting started.

I then used photoshop 24x14 cm frame to create my storyboard one frame at a time, putting in relevant arrows for movement which resulted in the final storyboard seen below. you may notice a cane in style and further simplicity of elects such as background which make it simpler for viewers as we go along, this helped me establish a 'style' for my storyboard in week six

Link to further research Material

https://www.notion.so/Script-to-storyboard-understanding-shots-166764463f1c47cfba373fae8e09d386

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MEDIUM SHOT

It is the middle of the night. The camera tracks along side a fat, balding middle-aged man who is running from right to left through the forest. He is wearing only vest and pants.

CLOSE-UP LOW LEVEL SHOT

His foot gets caught in a root in the undergrowth and he trips over.

MEDIUM SHOT TRACKING DOWNWARDS DIAGONALLY

The camera follows the man as he falls from right to left, he's out of control rolling down a very steep slope, trees and bushes flashing past him on either side.

CLOSE-UP LOW LEVEL SHOT

A startled rabbit turns on its heels and darts out of shot.

MEDIUM OVERHEAD SHOT

The camera looks down, tracking slowly towards the man who is lying on his back in the darkness. He is dazed, mouth agape, staring at the camera.

MEDIUM WIDE SHOT

Morning forest clearing, dappled sunlight. The man is stilling motionless on his back, surrounded by several inquisitive rabbits. two birds look down at his from a branch. The man moves his head slightly and sniffs causing the rabbits and birds to scatter in different directions. The man sits up and looks around.

WIDE SHOT

Returning to the steep slope the man tries to climb back up grabbing at bushes, he manages to pull himself up a little way but slips back down again.

MEDIUM SHOT

The man sits dejected facing towards the camera, looking down at the ground his stomach rumbles. He looks up.

POV SHOT

Track in slowly on a bush covered in small red berries.

MEDIUM SHOT REPEAT

The man sits facing the camera looking more hopeful.

CLOSE-UP SHOT

The mans hands reaches in from the left of the screen to pick the berries.

MEDIUM WIDE SHOT

The man stands half concealed by the bush filling his face with berries.

WIDE SHOT

The man leans against a tree with his head hanging down, vomiting violently.

WIDE SHOT

Large forest clearing. on the far side of the clearing we see the back of the man walking away. Disappearing into the undergrowth.

WIDE SHOT

the man reached the edge of the forest and is walking from the left shot out into the sunshine on the right.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP

The man walks towards the camera out of the forest and into the sunlight, he stops walking and stares, looking past the camera at something in front of him.

EXTREME WIDE SHOT

Sunset. In the distance on the left side of the screen the man is standing looking towards the right of the screen. He is teetering on the edge of a massive sheer cliff. In the far, the sun sinks behind the range of mountains. After a few seconds the man turns and runs off to the left, back into the tree out of shot.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP SHOT

The camera tracks alongside the man as he runs panic stricken From right to left through the darkness of the forest.

MEDIUM WIDE SHOT

A dead goat, legs sticking up in the air. A swarm of flies buzz around the rotten carcass.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP SHOT

The man facing the camera looks downwards. He is out of breath, gasping for air, staring. Flies in front of him.

CLOSE-UP SHOT

The goats head empty eye sockets, flies buzzing around in front.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP SHOT

(Repeat ) the man facing towards the camera, looks downwards. He is out of breath, gasping for air, staring. Flies buzzing around in front of him.

WIDE SHOT

Seen from behind the man staggers. leans forward, supporting himself with his arm against a large tree.

CLOSE-UP

Ground level. The man falls into shot, his head hits the ground and he appears to be unconscious.

ZOOM FROM MEDIUM TO CLOSEUP SHOT

Flies swarm furiously around the dead goat. The camera zooms closer and closer towards the goats carcass ribcage until blackness has completely engulfed the screen.

FINAL STORYBOARD

WEEK 2

During this week we went further into the study of film Directing, learning about camera angels and the 180 rule. it was a much more creative process than the week prior, given the following prompt from a book of 500 shortest stories, we interpreted the scene and directing how the imagery how we left necessary:

Evening Surprise:

Shimmering stockings stretched over shapely thighs- perfect backdrop for body- skimming cocktail dress. Glamour Radiated from the ends of the diamond earrings to the tips of spike heeled shoes. As shadowed eyes surveyed the mirrors reflection, painted lips pursed with pleasure. Suddenly a voice cries from behind. "dad?!"

My for this storyboard was similar to the one prior to it, I collected reference images for inspiration to aid me with visualising the environment and characters involved. For this storyboard however I also decided to write a script to breakdown the individual camera angels and set the scene. This made the pen to paper process much simpler, the script was took some minor alteration from the original to fit the ideal cinematic setup I found it to be below .

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Link to Further research Material:

https://www.notion.so/Storyboard-breakdown-6f231523eeeb4b11a13776bb4d93c244

FINAL STORYBOARD

ESTABLISHING SHOT

Set in a vanity room with velvet curtains. a floor lamp on the left of the room. A large rounded edge mirror. colourful wall art, seductive continuous line drawings, gold framed. a cigarette packet standing on the vanity table waiting to be lit. we hear the sound of the door knob opening.

CLOSE-UP SHOT

a hand reaches putting a vinyl disk on player, tonearm to the disk.

MEDIUM LOW LEVEL SHOT

The person sits facing back to the camera. one black spinning vanity chair. The chair hints at turning, their arm is seen from the side reaching towards a drawer.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP SHOT

(actioning previous shot).

CLOSE-UP SHOT

a drawer is opened revealing a set of bras underwear and stockings.

CLOSE-UP

Leg lifted onto the vanity chair . Light stockings are slowly and seductively put on starting with the feet.

MEDIUM SHOT (45 DEGREE TURN )

The stockings further rising, heels tip toeing revealing the persons long, slim, model like legs.

CLOSE-UP

(left ) Camera facing forwards, the stockings are clipped on shapely thighs making a clipping sound.

CLOSEUP

(right) repeat on previous shot action on other leg.

POV MEDIUM FULL SHOT

A closet is shown revealing womenswear on the lefts and mens wear not he right.

MEDIUM CLOSE-UP

A hand is seen going from right to left, picking out a dress from the closet.

MEDIUM SHOT

A green cocktail dress falls from heir waist side as they press their hands against their figure, the camera tracks down following the dress falling.

CLOSE-UP SHOT

a jewellery box opened revealing a female accessory box with necklaces, watches and earrings.

EXTREME CLOSE-UP

Large sparkling diamond earrings hang from their ear.

CLOSE-UP LOW LEVEL SHOT

jump cut facing sideways, the person is seen slipping into a pair of red pointed heels. one leg after another, we hear the taping of their heels at completion.

EXTREME CLOSE-UP

A brush is picked up swooping a large amount of brown eyeshadow from pallet.

CLOSE-UP

finally their eyes are revealed, left eye squinting with the right eye shut, the hesitantly apply the dark eyeshadow on, the camera lens zooms into their eyelid.

MEDIUM SHOT

small cosmetic mirror is used to check their eye makeup, pulled down to reveal their red pursed lips, a faint moustache it seen on their upper lip, could this be ?

(POV )WIDE SHOT

DAD!?

The cosmetic mirror is pulled aside, revealing a distraught young girl, her teddy dangling from her side, face filled with confusion.

WEEK 3

The final brief is week 7 was about collecting all the knowledge gather from pre-production and our understand of storyboarding, 180 rule, shots and shot angels to finalise it with the element we will be using most with client work: animatics.

I chose the coming out audio as I felt that several comedic elements can be added, as well as slight tension and suspense between shots. I created some of the illustrations on photoshop but i mostly used tv paint to assemble animatic. I created the background seen below on cinema 4D and moved around the background in a speedy pace to reduce the render time. The shots required were then traced and the characters added finally

Son character design