Sunday, 11 October 2009

Storyboard starting ideas

The lyrics 'where do we go now?' gave me an idea of things vanishing around a central character. This would be a mid-way point between concept and narrative, i will produce a questionare to decifer how important these things are to the audience.
A possibility would be to use a dark room and play around with lighting, however i hope to use various effects using software such as 'imovie'

Ideas
  • Hide and Seek
I have a shot in mind in which the main character is central in the frame smiling stupidly, behind him you see his asumed friends lying on the grass below a tree. they suddenly get sucked up into the branches out of view, Character looks behind him then looks back with a sad face. this can be done by playing the shot in reverse. This refers to the lyrics 'Where Do We Go Now?'

  • Time passing
Can be done by setting up a camera and recording for a long time, central character either moves slowly or remains very still, then the shot is sped up on software.

  • Running
An obvious idea considering the song title, running away from someone or something such as a situation. This could be more possible to shoot if i had the use of imovie 09s' shot steadying feature or i made a make-shift steady-cam. A 'stori cam' could be used here.

  • Cutting to Marathon
Narrative could keep returning to an olympic marathon race (close up of character), character is exhausted but beside him is an upbeat girl taunting him.

  • Disappearing
'Give me a reason why you left me on my own', the idea of loneliness and loosing things. The main character would have to stay still between frames and i will cross-fade objects when they are there and when they are not.

  • Water
'Out of control', if i film a character jumping into a swimming pool then reverse it, it would create the effect of exploding and flying out from the water. I would then play this in slow-mo for emphasis

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