Fixing the story we told through art and stick figures :’]

As of the week of February 13th through the 17th, me and the cinematographer came up with ideas for our storyboard, with help from our editor. We had a a very vague idea of what we wanted. We knew we wanted to include the first shot: A high angle tilt for our establishing shot, which then pans down, showing one of our main characters walking into the bookstore, as seen in the image. 

This was one of few aspects that remained the same throughout planning. The ‘4’ on the top of the frame shows the amount of seconds we plan to allow for the shot, which in all honesty, might end up getting re-planned.

One shot that ended up getting cut from the board was a still, mid-level shot of Adrian (the same character walking into frame, shown in the image in blue) walking into focus. We planned to get a tracking shot, extreme low level, of them walking up to a book table. The next shot would be the table, in focus, and Adrain walking up to the table, getting into focus. This is shown in the image below. 

The faded figure is a visual representation of Adrian coming into focus. We eventually decided that this sequence would take too much time, and it would be bit more difficult. It felt as if there was too much moving and jumping to new angles.

Me and the cinematographer did end up coming to an agreement about the first few opening seconds. These changes are shown in the images below. The first is our original plan. The second shows the newer ideas we came up with.

One lesson learned was to not overdue with the different camera angles. Our main reason for changing majority of the storyboard was the lack of sense in the story telling, and lack of time as well. We also had to many ideas we wanted to incorporate.

A goal I had for this production was to include more visually appealing shots, something we didn’t get to do in our last film. 

There is a thing as too many good camera angles. 

I will say this, I like where these ideas are going. There

is however, much more we have to do.