storyboarding

Storyboarding for the Edale trip was difficult due to the fact we had never visited Edale for locations. For this reason we both decided to draw up rough storyboards which could be completed virtually anywhere with the majority of cinemetography and mise-ene-scene planned at the shooting location. Examples of this 'simple' storyboarding include string going over a wall, into and out of odd locations eg. beer bottle,machinery etc. The majority of this simple storyboarding worked however for a few examples eg. String traveling through small gap(character climbs over) we couldn't find a suitable location. In retrospect i would have changed a lot about the way we produced the short we did. Planning was relatively poor as was timekeeping however the finished product did reflect aspects of what we had initially planned. An example of this is our failure to secure a decent quality camera before the shoot, leading to lost/poor footage. All things considered i would have much rather produced a story in which a character follows the string, becoming increasingly lost and deteriorated; However he is really on a drunken journey(represented by a trail of bottles rather than string-revealed by different camera angles). This would have allowed for a much more thought provoking story which could have had a revelation at the end as he looks down, sees the string, looks back and its a bottle,before slumping against a grimey wall finally realising his issue with drugs/drink. This is an area i hope to explore in future projects and private work and look to take all the mistakes we made as positives; after all the best way to learn is to make mistakes.