Storyboarding

Hey guys! So here's a little update on what Mariana and I have been doing lately. We met up this weekend to work on our storyboard and talk about the location, costumes, etc.

For this post I'm mostly going to talk about our storyboard even though I am only going to show a part of it. Wouldn't want to give the story away right?! We have discussed a lot about what we want our opening to do. Do we want it to establish the tone? Allude to conflict? Create mystery? After much thinking and researching, we are thinking about focusing our film opening on establishing the setting and introducing the main character's environment. We have looked into locations and we are thinking about filming in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Brickell is all about wealth and luxury and they opened up a brand new mall that really stood out to us for filming.

Brickell

As it is probably pretty evident right now, we are considering of depicting someone with a high socio-economic status. Mariana and I also live in an area where a lot of wealthy people live in so we are accustomed to how these people act and their lifestyles.

Well anyways... here is part of our storyboard. Luckily, we found a website called Storyboard That where we tried to plan out the first several shots. These shots are examples of the places we want to film at. 

The first shot from left to right would be an establishing shot of a view of Miami/Brickell, the setting of our story. Then, the second shot would be of an important building that represents Miami, like The American Airlines Arena. The whole purpose of these shots is to welcome the viewer into the setting and character's environment. Next, the third shot would be of either an expensive, fancy clothing store or the outside of the Brickell mall to help us begin the plot of our story.

The first shot from left to right would be another store or a restaurant because we want to show various different types of meanings of wealth in this character's world. Then, the girl standing up with her back facing us would be the main character. The shot won't look like that entirely, we just wanted to represent her walking besides the stores most likely holding shopping bags or with her friends. The last shot is representation of the inside of a clothing store from our main character point of view as she enters it. Although this website isn't perfect unless you pay, it helped us to it map out the type of shots we want to portray. It helped us not worry so much about the little details just yet. Throughout the whole recording process, there will be different types of shots and I actually drew some of them out with a little more detail. Since we used the website I didn't worry too much about the order I just worried about different scenery we wanted to depict.




These are other examples of what we may want to depict, like her at an expensive, fancy restaurant.

Well, that is it for today, but tune in next week for more behind-the-scenes of our film opening!


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