Storyboard

As I have come up with a plot and an idea of what I would like my film to contain I have made a storyboard for it, I had many ideas for this, for example the order in which I would like to show the flashbacks or how many clips of a flashback there would be, however I have come up with a storyboard that I will use when filming that I feel like I would be happy with.

I shall film all of the scenes in this storyboard and if I later decide I do not like them for whatever reason or that they don't fit, I shall cut it.

The first scan of the storyboard that you can see below is all going to be under a voiceover, they are all flashbacks as the girl in the voiceover is in the present.

Like I have mentioned I have planned the flashbacks to be in reverse order, from the girl throwing the book away right up until after the voiceover when she receives it.

The first frame is of the girl looking relieved but feeling bittersweet as she throws the book away when she comes to realise the only way forward is to do so. The second is of the girl actually throwing the book away, the black square is the frame I will be focused on however I have drawn the rest of the location in so you can see its a lake, and I shall incorporate that into the clip, after that I plan to have a close up of the book falling into the water to make use of the angles I have learnt about during the year.

The third frame is of the girl crying because of her own actions that the book has lead her to do, she sends a mysterious text telling somebody that she is sorry, this is the point where she comes to realise she needs to dispose of the book. I also believe this scene would be enticing to the audience because they would be curious to find out what happened to the girl and why she is sorry.

The fourth and fifth frames are simply the girl reading and being engrossed in the book showing facial expressions to express how she feels about what she is reading.

I then had an idea to do a rewind of all these flashbacks inside the girls head and coming to an abrupt halt with the book closing, this would build tension and I feel would entice the audience massively.

Moving onto the second half of the film opening, there is no longer a voiceover or narrator and its as if we have gone back in time and are about to relive the girls story - like the titanic.

The first scene here would be the girl finding out she failed her test as the teacher places it on her desk and tells the girl to see her at the end of the lesson. In the second frame you then see the teacher giving the girl a list of books that may help her revision for her upcoming exam, telling her she may find them in the library. The girl then walks into the library. In the third box you can see the girl in the library looking through books when the librarian offers her help telling her about a box of free books. The girl then looks through these and in the second half of this box you can see her reaching out to grab a black one she seems the most intrigued by.

In the fourth you can see the girl holding the book and walking out of the library with it. I then had an idea for there to be a quick montage of the girl reading the book whilst sitting in school, walking out of school and finally reading it whilst in bed. In the final frame the girl realises she is the main character in the book as they are both linked by the same object and life story and we see her rummaging through her belongings to find it and then finding it with a look of worry on her face. That marks the end of the opening.

DISCLAIMER

• The angles I have drawn in the storyboard above are minimal, during the filming process I plan to take many different videos from different angles of the same thing, and piece them together during the editing process.
• I shall film all of the scenes above, however if they don't fit with the film or I feel like I could slightly tweak it to make the opening better, I will.