Thursday, 7 October 2010

Story Boarding

Lesson 1

We have now begun story boarding our movie out with different sheets, our first problem occurred with the transition between the birds eye view shot of her in the bed watching the ceiling to the dream (which we have now decided will be a different tint on the picture to show that its a dream and different from the previous footage). We decided to do the fade to black and then fade back to the first shot of the dream to show that she has closed her eyes and is now dreaming. Another part that we weren't sure about was the 'walking towards each other' scene which we wanted to be steady without the use of a tripod, we were contemplating on having her standing still whilst he is walking towards her, but we decided that this would be to obvious and not realistic. So we will have to 'hand hold' the shot, we also weren't sure how to position the camera when they fall and either have their legs in the shot and watch their possessions falling to the floor, or to have a long shot of them both falling. We decided that we would have a close up on the floor of their possessions falling to show that they have 'bashed' in to each other. Then cuts to a long shot of the boy holding the girl up. We also had a discussion about the romantic scenes in the film, which we chose not to be massive gestures of love or romance but instead small every day young actions that would provoke her to fall in love with him even more.




Lesson 2 & 3
We then had a discussion about the 'key bedroom' location and what we thought it should be, we realised that if it was at the girls house then why would she leave her own house with him there but then if she was at the boyfriends house then she would have a suit case there which would be a bit difficult. But we decided to have a large bag with her sleepover stuff. Although we have many different locations we will have the problem with lighting however the natural lighting will add to the realistic view. As well as the whole lighting giving the atmosphere a clear view such as at night with the 'fight scene' giving it a darker menacing look. Louise made a good point about the flashbacks being the important memories of their relationship so we were trying to picture the most important things that she would remember about the relationship such as the fight which shows his different side. We have decided to have it through her eyes and the victims with the use of camera angles and an over the shoulder shot.We have also decided to use one of the possible meeting places as the fight scene due to its thin path and darkness. The fight scene is going to take up the most shots with jump cuts back and forth from the girls reaction to the boys fighting. We have an interesting track of the guy he is beating up POV shot that falls with him and sees the girl in the background. We have decided to then have a reaction shot of the girl, showing her emotions. There are two ways in which we can have her react - running away or break down, we have decided for her to run away.





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