Portfolio Project: Storyboard

Bailey and I last class worked on the first page of the storyboard and decided to stray away from using "Breakfast in America". We were slightly hooked on the idea, but Bailey and I both thought it best to just pick a different idea so we are not wasting time waiting for the Universal Music Group to contact us back with the rights (of which we may not even obtain). So we decided to do a different plot for the intro. I offered Bailey the idea of shooting near a ominous lamppost that I know of, in which the idea spurred to create a mysterious, vague, and ominous opening. We aim to create a sense of confusion for the viewer by providing a part of the climax of the film, as well as scenes intended to be from the past.

We started the planning by "spitballing" different overall plots for the film, thinking about how we will make a larger story out of an intro to ensure that we don't create a short film as opposed to a movie opening. We started with a man that does not have his life sorted out for one reason or another (we plan to create a more in depth personality for him later) in a bar (we plan to make a set to look like a bar) being talked to by his friend, Peter, and the main gloomy character is not in the mood to talk. Peter, on the other hand, is energetic and trying to get conversation out of the main character. During the entire sequence, there will be cuts from current time and the bar scene (intended to be in the past). In the scenes meant to be in the present tense, there will be a constant zooming out at the lamppost mentioned earlier. Eventually, the body of Peter will be revealed with bloody hands of the main character.

We hope to make confusion and ambiguity of the plot with this idea in order to best present a movie introduction, providing viewers more of a reason to watch the remainder of the film.

The storyboard's first page that we created is posted below.