📒 14. Initial Storyboard 📒

 

    Welcome back my loyal followers! If you couldn't tell by the title of this blog, we'll be going over our recent storyboard for our movie opener, "Chasing Perfection"! As you'll see through the illustrations, Rebecca and I have absolutely no talent for drawing (but I mean at least they aren't purely stick figure kindergarten drawings, right?). For the majority of the illustrations, I drew them while Rebecca and I brainstormed what angles we wanted to shoot from, the type of shot we wanted, and what sort of emotion or "vibe" we wanted to portray. But yeah, I can't wait for you guys to read and see our thinking process and witness our progress throughout this project!

As you can see here, our first shot starts off with a big blaring alarm clock sounding off, and our main character reaches to turn it off. Then, in our second shot, we used this as sort of the establishing shot to give an idea of how messy the room is, and we can see the main character rolling out of bed to get ready.

For shot #3, we decided to shoot it under the bed to give a clear depiction of the messy and cluttered floor that she's been walking on, and in shot 4 we begin building on the frantic energy that our character is experiencing, such as her jumping around, tripping, and trying not to fall over when putting on her jeans (I was pretty fond of the idea since this has literally happened to me several times, embarrassingly enough).

For our second page, we decided it would be a good time to finally show our character's face and continue to portray her room as a messy teenager. As you can see here, Rebecca and I wanted to showcase the typical morning that the majority of people experience when they're running late and all the clumsy moments and chaos that follow throughout the entire routine, such as when we see the character tripping over her shoe. 

After throwing the shoe from shot #6, we wanted to include some fun transitions (the camera quickly panning to the right as the shoe hits the wall) to further increase the tension and display the annoying moments that our character is experiencing. Once she throws the shoe, she realizes that her pits absolutely STINK and she has to freshen herself up a bit before she goes out into the scary world. To further add some creativity to our movie opener, I wanted to include an invisible cut, similar to the ones in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", as she walks out her room over to the bathroom.

So in shot #9, our main character is shown in the bathroom and begins freshening herself up and later on in the film (as we figure out whether we have more time left to include some more clips) we might include some shots of her putting her hair into a messy bun. Then, in shot #10 and #11, we go into a master shot of the main character throwing her towel, which knocks over her pill bottle. While I'm writing this, I'm not 100% sure whether or not I want to include this shot and instead replace it for something else, but I guess Rebecca and I will also have to figure that out once we begin shooting these scenes.

In shot #12, we decided that it would be a good idea to include a small clip of her getting ready to leave soon and have her brush her teeth. Another invisible cut will be included here, and Rebecca and I are still going to attempt to figure out how we can use the invisible cut as we transition to shot #13, but we also may end up scrapping it. As you can tell so far, we still have a few ideas up in the air as of now, but I'm definitely not opposed to changing and tweaking some things.

Lastly, in shots #13 and #14, we begin wrapping up our movie opener by bringing our main character back into her room to slip on her shoes (in a very messy way) and walking out her room. Perhaps as she's walking by, we'll include another invisible cut or dolly in or something else to bring the camera closer to the alarm clock as we approach the last few seconds. The alarm clock will continue sounding off as the camera gets closer, and the beeping might become increasingly louder within each beep. But yeah! It was slightly a lengthy process to finally get all of our ideas together and organize them, but once we got them down on paper, it definitely helped us have a clear vision as to what we wanted and how we could use our storyboard to tweak or incorporate some elements as we start composing our film.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this slightly messy process and learned something about storyboarding (because I know for a fact I learned several new things). But yeah, stay posted for our upcoming blog post on our first shooting day and how our expectations meet our realities! Thanks for coming along with me and I'll see you all in the next one.