Storyboard

    This week during class we began to plan our movies with more detail using a storyboarding method. According to James Higgins, “Storyboard is a flexible and comprehensive tool that can be used by a group to devise creative concepts.” During the process of creating our storyboard, we had some troubles planning how we were going to include all the aspects we wanted and needed to within the time limit we were given. Because one of our goals is to foreshadow some future elements of the movie, we had to find a drama source that we could include throughout to ensure that we did so. We weren't sure what element we could use to do this, but after a few conversations we decided to include a boy that all the girls in the group had feelings for. The idea of adding this boy into the movie also added a more dramatic effect with the friend group, which is perfect for our movie as it is a comedy and drama movie. After confirming that this was the concept we were going to use, the storyboarding process made it much easier to continue with the rest of the movie. Using storyboarding to plan the movie made it much easier to plan the mis en scene and different shots or angles we could use to make it better. Overall, I very much enjoyed being able to write out how we were going to execute the different images and draw out how we wanted them to look.




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