Storyboard idea

I drew up a story board to create a rough story for our short film, I listed a range of camera angles and created a rough story which we could possibly use in our film. I thought as an idea, that we could use the time of year 'Christmas', as this would portray the characters lonliness, another way to show this would be by using other props, for example a phone and the protagonists having no messages. To set the scene of Christmas, we will use decorations to create the time of year.

In this story board, i created an opening and a dilema that the protagonist would face. We could open the scene showing the character being by themselves, using non diegetic sounds to show the audience what time of year it is, using an extreme close up shot would work well as when zooming out, it will show the characters sense of lonliness and set the scene and loacation.

In this particular idea, the character just suddenly got smaller, which was the dilema in the scene. This story would show the protagonist getting smaller and sinking into the sofa, finding another land and finding everyday objects being much larger than herself. To portray the 'land' in the sofa, we would darken the lighting, and use soft objects, such as pillows and duvets to create the effect of being inside or down the side of the sofa.

I thought that using a sweet wrapper for the character to get stuck in would create a sense of tension during the middle of the film, and would also be interesting for the audience to watch.

This was just an idea for our film, we may take ideas from this to use in our final 4 minute film.