Storyboarding

A storyboard is a way of pre-visualising what a motion picture may look like with a series of illustrations/images. Storyboarding is known for being a tedious yet necessary part of planning a film.

SCENE 2, Storyboard 1:
This is the very basic storyboard that we did to illustrate the bedroom scene. We drew it in pencil and pen and added important camera movements in orange arrows which shows the direction.


In the first box we simply put that it was the opening shot and that from this shot we would see the desk. Obviously, not being great artists and to try and get ideas down quickly, we didn't spend too much time trying to get the angles right to make the picture look perfect.

This is the second and third box on the storyboard. As the arrow from the first box to the second explains that this is the position in which the pan shot that starts in the first box ends. We made a note that Kate would appear restless with it being hard to illustrate this. The picture below is a photograph we took when filming to show how useful our storyboard was.

The next 3 boxes on out story board are:

The first box we decided to leave blank because we weren't sure what would look best. We made a note that a shot of the door might be good, possibly from Scarlett's point of view, because there will be scratching (as noted at the top). We also though that a close up of Scarlett's hand scratching at the door might work too.
The second box shows a close up of Kate's face. We thought that to show Kate's stress it might be good if she suddenly sat up in bed and we saw her face looking worried. This flows into the third box with a shot from Kate's point of view to show her looking around the room to see where the scratching noise is coming from, which we plan on making into an eyeline match.

These were the last boxes we drew for the second scene.
The first one is of a close up of Kate again; like the first one. We though this would contrast how she looked in the previous one because it would show her calming down and visibly relaxing. The second one is a picture of Kate laying back down and trying to get back to sleep. The last box is a point of view of shot from Kate, looking at the door. At this point she has realised where the scratching and banging is coming from, and we hope to zoom in with the camera on the handle door quickly to begin the speed up into the rest of the scene.

These are just basic ideas that we came up with for shots and how the scene will flow together. In our shot list we added more to the scene, but storyboarding definately made visualising the shots easier and was really useful.