Storyboard ⋆˙⟡

Here is my storyboard for my documentary project. This was made by Candra and Maisie. However, blog content and the first attachment, aside the drawings itself is written by me (Cassie).

Below, I noted down my ideas for the opening scene.

My teammates all agrees on this idea, so we decided to use it for the storyboard with a few tweaks. Below is the first draft of the storyboard, which was very detailed. Unfortunately, It was very time consuming and would take too much energy to make. 

So, we created another, less detailed storyboard of the next scenes. This one took less time, but was equally as informative. Since we may not follow the storyboard identically, we should not use too much energy on a very detailed storyboard.

Additionally, we all watched a video on storyboarding in order to effectively draw storyboards. The video is placed below. This video was helpful as it taught us what was worth writing, drawing, detailing, etc so we could make it high-quality and efficient. 

Changes We Made:

1. In the first shots, we decided to use a tracking shot in the dark of the stalker, instead of the girl. We want to make it clear from the start that this is a stalking documentary, and it might be hard to make that connection if it’s the girl walking first.

2. We ditched the narration and phone call. We decided a voice mail/phone call inspired dialogue of the stalker is a better fit, and made the atmosphere very uneasy. 

3. Instead of random visuals/establishing shots, we decided to use the tracking shot of the girl walking. We used it to create a connection between the girl and the stalker.

4. We used alot of the scenes in the next storyboard, however just later on in the documentary. After this, we kept the detective’s interview scene so he can introduce the case.