R+P Post 12: Our Storyboard

To further help with the planning of our film opening we produced a storyboard. This was extremely useful as it allowed us to visualize our film opening on paper and in turn give us a better idea of how it might look on camera, moreover this gave us the opportunity to evaluate shots and make changes where necessary.

Much like our timeline, we split our storyboard into three parts: beginning, middle and end.

Our Storyboard

As you can see in the picture, we labeled our different shot types with colored post-stick notes. The key we use was:

• Close Ups = blue
• Mid Shots = orange
• Long Shots = green
• Graphics = pink

In order to illustrate camera and character movement we made use of arrows, with thick black arrows representing camera movement and thin black arrows representing character movement.

Furthermore, the storyboard was also very useful in creating our shoot boards as it showed us all of the settings we were using and in turn allowed us to group our shots in terms of set pieces.