Initial Storyboard

 Hey everyone, welcome back :)

Recently, my group has gathered together via zoom and we've decided upon a general timeline for our opening scene. In order to keep things fair, we decided to split our initial storyboard between the four of us. I suggested we each do six shots, but Daniel suggested we do only three since this is just a rough idea. We went with Daniel's suggestion. 

Thankfully, Daniel was able to send a message assigning what exactly goes in each shot. We all based our storyboards off of his message. 

I did shots 1-3, Daniel did shots 4-6, Hannah did shots 7-9, and Tori did shots 10-12.

 

Like I said, shots 1-3 are the ones that I did. Like I've mentioned before, my artistic abilities are pretty bad. However, I managed to draw how I imagined the beginning of the opening scene would roughly look like. After a logo or something animated appears, it would fade to black. While the screen is still black, the audio of an alarm would play, and the visual of it would quickly show after while a girl's (Betty's) hand would try to shut it off in a close up.

Following the close up, there would then be a cut to a medium of Betty stretching and waking up. Betty would begin narrating her story through a voiceover at this point with calm, non-diegetic music in the background.

After this, there would be a cut to a pan showing the entire room, highlighting the different items in Betty's room to display a recent heartbreak and/or breakup. Such items would include ripped photos, tissues scattered around, and a teddy bear in the trash can. While this happens, music would play while Betty continues narrating her story and her past situation in the voiceover. Credits would be playing on the bottom of the screen as well.

These three shots are the ones Daniel drew. There would be a cut to an over-the-shoulder shot of Betty in front of a vanity/mirror while she puts on makeup. The voiceover would still be happening. The sound of a doorbell would play, and Betty would turn around out of curiosity. I think the music would still be playing, but I don't know if this would stop once the doorbell rings.

After, there would be a cut to a POV shot as Betty walks up to the door to answer it. When it opens, the camera would show Betty's ex-boyfriend, James outside the door. He would be holding flowers and he would have a sad facial expression.

Then, there would be a cut to an over-the-shoulder shot of Betty and James having a short conversation. The camera would show Betty rejecting James' apology.

These shots are the ones that Hannah drew. Here, the scene picks up from the over-the-shoulder shot and cuts from this to a POV shot of Betty slamming the door shut after the conversation with James. The flowers he was holding would then fall to the ground as he looks extremely sad and cries out "But!". Betty would not respond. 

The scene would then dissolve to a wide shot showing James walking away from the house and into the street. He would still be looking sad while he walks, and sad non-diegetic music would be playing.

After, there would be a cut to an over-the-shoulder shot showing James and a different girl named August as she drives by and rolls her window down to talk to him. She would say something along the lines of "Get in," and the music would stop playing.

These last shots were drawn by Tori. There would be a cut to a medium shot showing James walking towards August's car. The two would get into an argument and the arguing would continue even as James enters the car. The camera would start moving backwards and exiting this area. After this, the camera would turn away from the action and tilt up to the sky, as the audio of the arguing would begin to muffle.  The film title would then appear in the sky. Melancholic music would be playing during the duration of these shots.

All in all, I think my group did pretty great collaborating on this initial storyboard. I'm sure our final product would look very different than what these drawings represent, but having a general outline of where things are going is surely a relief.

Mediamel out!