At the very beginning of this semester, we started learning sketching and drawing techniques to start working on our story board, there were 3 subject matter, a box, a piece of cloth and a rock. So we started learning how to draw these 3 objects first. Here are some images of my drawing practice:
Then as I start having ideas and concepts for the video project, I drew this simple story board on 4A size papers, this story is a very short story and a very simple concept:
This is
a brief storyboard of my first idea. There are not many frames cause the idea
of first person’s view. The first idea was very simple and also the story line;
a person starts walking in a really drak building and he keeps climbing up to
see what is this place, on the first level, he finds a rock written “stay away”
on its surface, he picked the rock up and kept walking up, he takes a piece of
cloth out of pocket and wipes his sweat off and kept walking up, suddenly, a
rumble came from upstairs, the next thing he sees is a box on a skateboard
sliding over to him, and there was no one around him, he picks the box and
opens it, money appears, ends with a scream.
To help myself learn better, I chose
not to go with this idea, instead, I chose to develop more to this video
project. So I used some items from the first concept, such as the sliding
skateboard with a box on it, and money in the box ends up with a scream in the
final video.
As I was saying, music inspires me.
I had this new concept between “dream” and “reality” then I thought of continuing
working on the campaign.
I got most of the ideas by listening to these 2
tracks in the video, 1, Arrival of the Birds – The Cinematic Orchestra. 2,
Rutten – Skream. Music inspires me a lot. Sometime the images come to my mind
when I listen to music with my eyes closed, while I was listening to Arrival of
the Birds, this waking up in the morning emotion came up to my mind and that’s
how I had this “dream to reality” idea in the story line.
Then I did a little sketch to document my ideas
I did not start with drawing a story board for this new
concept, I started doing some research on different camera shots, angles and
cinematography, to understand more about filming. Then I thought of using my
photography skill to create a story board, so I took those pictures for the
storyboard below
As I can't draw in speed to tell my story so I decided to take photographs to create a digital storyboard; but for planning the entire movie, setting up a photoshoot just for the storyboard is much to do, then I came up with a better idea to solve this problem, I wrote down the scripts and each frame's action, duration and all in context, then during the video shooting, I could follow the planned context to shoot each scene.
These images are the video planning draft, I shot the videos through these texts.
After the entire video is done, I started working on the digital storyboard, I chose to use photoshop software to create my digital storyboard, the lay out and texts are all made by photoshop. During editing layout I had a lot of mistakes.
The layout of these pages are not very align because I forgot to use Ruler in photoshop, and also the fonts of these pages are not the same, some parts are different fonts by mistake.
After shooting the digital photographs for the storyboard, I drew this by copying the photographs to practice my drawing skill in storyboarding.
Well, this semester, I have learned a lot through all the experiments that I've tried and all the mistakes that I've made, and all the research that I've done. I really enjoy this whole semester, got more skills on film planning and knowledge on cinematography.
