This document contains a storyboard for the opening of a film. It includes descriptions of 6 camera shots that will be used to introduce the main character and setting. The storyboard went through a rough draft and final draft process to refine the camera angles, transitions, and timing of each shot. The goal is to break conventions by not showing actors' names and using indoor establishing shots, while also establishing the character's discomfort in school versus comfort at home.

1. Storyboarding
By Megan and Seyi

2. Rough Draft
This is our rough draft. We have included the camera shots, lighting and sounds that we
intend to use in our film opening. When we started doing our storyboard draft we decided
the camera shots and movement that we will use. By doing a draft we could change our
ideas with what fits and what doesn’t. We found that some of our original ideas, such as
camera angles, didn’t work so we could then change it.

5. Final Draft
• This is our final draft. When we came to draw it up we found that some
things like the transitions didn’t work. we also found that we had missed a
frame out towards the end. By doing the rough draft first we got a good idea
of what it would look like so, it allowed us to make improvements when we
drew up our final draft.

6. 1) This is a 4 second
frame showing the film
production studio logo:
palace productions
2) Dissolved into the next frame, is a 5 second frame of an
extreme close up shot of the main characters hair being brushed
by a hand unknown to the audience at this point, thus breaking
a convention of the introduction of characters. As specified
under notes, there is the diegetic sound of laughing to set a
more uplifting atmosphere. Another convention is broken, there
are no actors’ names, in order to keep the audience focused on
the storyline rather than the people acting in it.
3) Here, there is a straight cut into a
5 second frame of an establishing
shot of the room they are in, to
reveal the characters involved in the
scene. Most establishing shots in
fantasy/thriller films are shot in the
outdoors (eg the wolverine), ours
being indoors makes it unique.
3)This frame is a two shot. We decided not to do an over-the-
shoulder shot here in order for the audience to see the
relationship between the two characters and connotes
togetherness. It also helps show how comfortable she is at
home. It also allows the audience to read the expressions on
their faces at the same time and reduces the complexity in
the film opening.
4) These two close up shots are
dissolved into each other to compare
the character’s feelings in both
settings. When school is mentioned
to her in the first frame, she
gradually becomes upset. In the next
frame, she is upset because she is in
the next setting: school. There is a
soft focus in both frames to show her
blocking everything out, once school
is mentioned.
5) This establishing shot is used to
emphasize how comfortable the
character is in a school environment
and show her anti social behaviour.
Her classmates are having fun while
she is lonely in the back.
6) There is a straight cut
to a scene where the
character is slumped on
her table, isolated from
her classmates to show
how uncomfortable she is.
There is a soft focus in
order for the audience to
keep their focus on her.
The sound of her
classmate’s laughing and
screaming is reduced in
order to show she is
blocking them out of her
mind.

7. Here there is a straight cut
into what she is drawing,
which is the ruin. Then a
cross cut back and forth
from the picture into the
shot of the actual ruin. When
the last shot of the drawing
is shown, the bell rings to
show school being
dismissed. This puts a halt
to the mystical music from
the frames before, showing
she is out of her
imagination.
Rather than using a handheld
throughout the next frames, we
decided to use a canted angle for this
frame to show her uneasiness. It is
later put in a normal angle to show her
becoming more comfortable in this
environment, although handheld is
still being used.
Within these two frames the character
notices the ring. However, the long shot
is used for the audience to spot the ring
first and to show new found relaxation
in the character.
There is then a close up of her picking up
the ring, as the frame before shows her
reaching for then ring. This then leads to a
slow pace tracking shot of her picking the
ring and lifting it until it reaches her face,
which is shown in the next frames. There is
a mix of natural sounds diegetic sounds
(e.g shuffling of leaves, wind, etc) and
whimsical non diegetic music for this
outdoor setting.

8. To seem as if everything is normal and
catch the audience of guard, there is a 5
second long shot of the character simply
admiring the ring. However, there is a 2
second interruption of a blank screen, is
edited in in order to bring the element of
surprise and show something magical
had happened.
There is a shot of the ruin without her in
it. Here the audience is told she
disappears. The film title is then dissolved
into the picture. This will be easier
because both frames are similar.
Extreme close up