The Struggle ~ The "Story" Of Our Storyboard

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Per our teacher's critiques, we revised our storyboard prior to meeting for recording. We took our revised version of the storyboard to our recording session. We had both a physical and digital copy of our storyboard to take notes on during our recording process. 

This was the first storyboard, and compared to the revised one, this reads so much like a Barnes and Noble advertisement or a corny teen show.

I feel our revised storyboard communicated our plot a lot better, but there were still many confusions.

revised storyboard
reordered shots from storyboard

The revised storyboard is much more specific than our first draft, which helped us, but didn't prevent us from editing it. 

The numbers (in the second image) represent the different shots, and the baffling order of the numbers made filming very hard to understand. We set aside a good 30 minutes before actually filming to clarify this order, and still we ran into several issues. The order of the shots and scenes made slating very difficult, to the point where we couldn't keep track of what we were filming. 

This situation made me realize how vital organizing scenes prior to filming is, not just for us as the filmmakers to understand, but for our editor (who wasn't present) to dissect later. I made a mental note to change our slating system for future use. During filming, we used Scene X Shot Y to slate our shots, when we should've been using Scene X, Shot Y, Take Z. This makes it so it's explicitly clear where in the story we are and what we're recording, and helps the editor in differentiating the scenes later. 






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