Story boards are used in every film created in the cinematic world today. They help tremendously with the filming process and are a great way of keeping in track with the filming whilst going along with shoots. I was told by my tutor as an idea, to create a story board to help with my short film that I was creating. At this point anything could happen, and the film could change completely, but I have started one anyway.
For my hand in of my Proposal in December, I chose to produce a quick story board of what I wanted my short dance film to be like. This was handy to do because it was a way of showing what the film might play out like. I wanted to sketch out how the film would play out and what the short clips would be of, to make up the film all together. This is not the complete idea of the film but is two pages of what I would like to film and what I would like it to look like. I had most of my inspiration from all the films that I have re-searched for my work so far.
The images on here are quite unclear but in my sketch book I have placed the actual copies. I start with the title, and my brand and move onto how I want it to start, a lot of short focusing, and depth of fields. My ideal dancer for my film is ballet, so I have sketched out a dancer in different motions as to how I want to film them. This story board shows rough and spaced out film still frames. Most of my inspiration for movements came from the previous blog post/page including the super slow motion ballet called 'Le Vent', in which the movements are shown extremely well in slo-mo. From this I sketched out movements I'd like to film and also the on location frames which I also plan to do.
Under each sketch/frame I have a small very short explanation of what that particular screen will be of. Some include close up's of the floor, and the location plants and others, slow movements, and camera angles. I am planning to draw out some more story boards of the possible changes in my work as my project goes on. Location scouting will need to be done if I decide to shoot outside for some of this, but it also depends on the weather, it has been quite bad lately so would probably be a good idea to stay with inside.
As this project goes on, I will include a second and probably final storyboard as I would like to look back at the changes if they happen. I know that if I draw something out that I want to happen, I may come across difficulties along the way, as in this case, the weather and location shooting, and if I decide to just shoot indoors then this first story board has already change dramatically. I also might have problems with dancers, models, and equipment, which would also result in big changes, but one thing that is certain is that my short film will stay with the topic of dance.
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