Pre production planning- Storyboarding, Scripting and Animatics

Me and priscilla working on storyboarding

For the first time, I experienced storyboarding in a whole new way. Drawing shot by shot on sticky notes really helped in deciding on certain shots and what to move around and keep in the story.

Here is one of the shotlists that we worked on, it helped to outline the storyboard and the pre storyboard planning was really helpful in deciding what shots would be good visually also.

After finishing the storyboarding for the animatics, helped by Lorna to take photos of them, we then uploaded the pictures onto Final cut to start editing them for our animatics.

Me and priscilla did the voiceovers for the animatics and chose the music that would give a certain vibe to the film.

Script sample

Fade in

INT. BEDROOM-MORNING

Camera pans slowly across the room, until a girl is seen, dressed in black, sitting on a bed. she is depressed and gazes silently at the floor.

Voices speaking can be heard outside of room.

INT.STAIRCASE-MORNING
Voices are two people speaking off screen.

Adult 1

(off screen)

Is she ready yet?

Adult 2

(off screen)

She should be... it is a funeral after all.....

Adult 1

(off screen)

(Sadly) Poor thing... Her sister.... At such a young age....

Adult 2

(Off screen)

(Tired) I know she won't eat properly, and she hasn't left her room since...

Adult 2

(Off screen)

I hope she still doesn't blame herself.



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