Making a Scene

While working on my storyboard project, I really started to realize how much goes in to planning for and making a movie. When I started writing my outline I kind of flew through it. I had all of the images in my head of what I wanted to illustrate and I began to describe them. After I finished, I looked back over my notes and realized I had skipped over a lot of time that would go by in-between my shots. I had trouble trying to fit my entire scene in to just fifteen shots. You try to think of every shot that has to be captured, from someone getting up from their seat to another character entering the room. It took me rewriting my outline several times to finally narrow down to fifteen shots but still keep enough to fulfill my story line. Then came the drawing... I'm not a very artistic person, so trying to include all of the necessary details was probably the hardest part for me. As I drew each shot I had to keep reminding myself of the background and surroundings. My main focus had been the main characters but without having background images, I really didn't have a setting. I had to recreate several shots including these details, but it really made a difference. My favorite part of the project was writing the dialog. My genre was romantic comedy and the lines just came to me as I looked at my images. My dialog changed a lot from what I had written in my outline and trying to make it funny was definitely an obstacle but overall it was a fun project.