After a long wait….my group finally finished our storyboarding!! Although it was definitely very time consuming, I think we will be able to take out all the hard effort we put in when it comes time to film, as it will make the filming process that much simpler. Rather than just drawing out the scenes as we went through our plot in detail, we also specified the types of camera shots and angles and editing techniques we planned on using at each step of the way.
Since the purpose of our film opening is to establish character and context through developing emotions, a majority of the shots we’ve decided to use, in addition to the lighting, are close ups to help build upon this. In addition we also have a mixture of medium and long shots to show some body movements/ action to add to the scenes. We also, at first, we’re on the fence about using high/low angle shots in our opening as we didn’t want then to appear cheesy, but finally decided to use both in order to paint Gabriel as small in the high angle to show in a sadder, more cowardly nature and vice versa. We also decided to use the eyeline match editing technique to show and advance Gabriel’s thoughts/ feelings without having to explicitly use dialogue to do so.
Another detail we discussed that we didn’t explicitly mention on our storyboard were the use of/ creating the effect of the use of a handheld camera in the very beginning because of action during the scene in which Gabriel is playing soccer in the beginning. I’ll be back for more updates soon!
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