Initial Story Board

   

 ⋆˙⟡ Project Story Board ✶⋆.˚

                                           

    We are back with another update on my group's film opener!

Today, I will be talking about my experience storyboarding with MY group: 

Story Board

Thomson

Davina

Yiqi

Rafael

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Our Experience

  Before we worked on the storyboard at ALL, we had to create a script outlining the events that would happen in the opener. We had to scrap some ideas we had before as we realized they were NOT practical for the time restraints of this project and would not fit into the story as well as we would like chronologically. 

    The script was divided into twelve major events/points within the story. Then, we split the work evenly, with everyone doing three events each. Thomson drew the FIRST three events outlined. I drew the next three, Yiqi did the three after that, and Rafael completed the LAST three. In the story board above, I listed and separated the frames by who drew them and put them into chronological order!

    Starting with the first three events, we open with an establishing shot of the house that pans side to side to reveal the surroundings of the setting of a house of our main character (the one that Yiqi plays) as we slowly transition with a J cut into the next scene with the sounds of texting gradually growing louder... In the next scene, we cut to Yiqi lounging casually in her house on her phone as the sound finally matches up with what we see on screen. The LAST of this batch of events is when someone knocks on the door quite loudly but Yiqi ignores it to continue texting on her phone.

    In the next three, it suddenly jumps to the character that I play (the main character's friend) casually lounging in my own room also in the SAME group chat/chat room as the one that Yiqi is in. However, one KEY difference between the two characters is that when there is a knock on my door I get up to answer while continuing to be glued to my phone. Afterward, it jumps back to Yiqi still on her bed texting when a sudden text message pops up asking for a meet-up. Both the reactions of Yiqi and I are shown side by side in order to visually contrast our differing reactions (Yiqi is excited/willing whereas I am skeptical).

    Then we switch to the antagonists' POV (point of view) as tension and suspense begin to build as Rafael and Thomson look at each other with a sinister expression on their faces and prepare to make their "heist" successful, and their preparation is done through a series of jump cuts of them packing and grabbing different items in order to increase the stakes of the next series of events as things are becoming very intense right now suddenly going from 0 to 100. Cutting back to Yiqi, through an over-the-shoulder shot we see my character warning Yiqi NOT to meet up in a private message outside of the group chat. However, Yiqi does not listen as we transition to the next event where Yiqi shows up at night in some shady place where the suggested meet-up was planned AT.

Lastly, Rafael and Thomson kidnap her and in the next scene we see Yiqi suddenly waking up in an unfamiliar place as the antagonists begin to explain the plan to use Yiqi as BAIT to lure her friend (my character) into becoming the next victim. The opener suddenly cuts off at my phone receiving a notification from Yiqi's phone as the scene fades to black...

    Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my NEXT blog about preparing to film!