Monday, 12 May 2014

Story Boarding - Film Opening


our story board has come together, i am able to move certain shots as we have them on paper sketched up and can cut them out and move them. we made a rough copy first. this was just a few pages of rough idea’s all scattered and pretty jumbled up. this enabled us to get all our idea’s down on paper and then move it around.
it starts with a news interview in a tv screen reporting about the gangs being taken down by a mysterious figure who appears to have a cowboys appearance. As this slowly zooms in we switch to building suspense shots of this character not seeing his face. shots of a gang in a bar who grab in someone and start beating him up in the bar. whilst this goes on it will have a mash of quick moving shots and then slower one’s with credits on. this shows our characters relaxed approach and power over the more chaotic style of the gang. we continue till we see him enter, we do not see him kill the gang but we do see how calm he is entering to do it and afterwards.
we asked our audience what they expected. they responded with horses and to be filmed at dusk. they wanted lots of action. we adapted our storyboard to finish with a scene at dusk of him practising his shooting. very clique but its a western it’s going to have some punny moments.
our beginning is very focused on building our character and the genre. with out audience questionnaires and interviews we adapted to show what they would like. with a horse being out of our budget we changed to have at least 1 shot of a stable where we see our character relaxing, at least showing that he has a connection to horses and pay and interest. we think that this is good to have as it makes our character a deeper person and therefore the viewers can get more of an connection to character.

looking at lots of credits in western films they always have very big red writing. hopefully we can capture this in our opening but it will require a lot of work to make it look neat than just out of place, but with some changes in contrast and brightness of the red it can look very good.

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