Storyboarding helped develop ideas and add further narrative to the storyline, this took some time as I had to carefully convert my ideas from the script to images that would eventually make up each shot of the film. I annotated the script in order to try and gain the best understanding and enhance my ability to convey the original idea in the form of a film production. The annotations and comments made on the script put my concept into further detail, providing me with sufficient ideas to develop my film into the next stages, which would be filming. Planning the shot list would provide me with step-by-step instructions on what I would be filming, in a particular order. These plans kept me organised which ensured the production would be of high quality due thorough planning and organisation. Evidently improving the cinematography and narrative of the final product.
Throughout the filming process, I stuck to my storyboards and script in order to achieve my desired final production, however on several occasions ideas changed and I shot additional footage to enhance the quality of the production. Below shows a number of screenshots from the film, these will be compared to the original storyboards.
Examples
Example 1
Firstly I have shown the award ceremony, showing Oliver Harrow receiving a 'Man Booker Award'. The idea stayed the same and remained in the final piece, however the planned angle of the shot change to a low angle two shot, creating a more atmospheric feel, enabling to make use of the lighting too, in which lead to a bright colouring on the actors with a completely blacked out background, drawing full attention to Olly Harrow. As seen on the storyboard below, I also planned to have a small montage of magazine covers, this was created using Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro rather than being filmed, however the two scenes switched place in the final edit, with the awards ceremony to show the first success, followed by all the media attention.
Next I have shown the interview scene. Once filming, I decided that I did not like the idea of having the books written by the protagonist as a focal point, thus resulting in removing these shots from the final edit, and using other transition techniques instead. Below show the interview taking place with the footage matching the storyboard, however I cut out the numerous over the shoulder shots from the interview and zoomed out slightly more to show cameras and lighting. This was done in order to make it seem more of a flashback than the present, which may have caused confusion as the protagonist now looks younger. If i had not done this, and filmed exactly how TV interview would be, the scene may have looked as though it was happening at this moment in time.
Example 2
The flashback scenes were developed through using a montage of 'old footage', and then a white vignette in the car crash scene to indicate it was still part of a flashback. We included clips of the young versions protagonists playing football, board games and sharing their free time together growing up with one another. The storyboard produced did not have specific clips shown, whereas the script did, thus we followed this in the filming stage. The car crash scene included a few additional clips that were taken on the day of filming, simply to create more of a build up and make it clearer to the audience. These included extra reaction and following shots. Additionally this scene follows the script exactly as originally stated, with the music introduced and it quickly becoming more sad and dramatic, building up to the car crash itself
In addition to following the script and storyboard with the final scene, I included a clip of an employee at the book shop announcing that the protagonist would be appearing for a book signing. The scene starts with a wide angle shot of the author at his desk, with fans waiting in line to get a signed copy of his latest release (2). Next additional clips have been included, showing medium close ups in order to give more diversity in the shots. The storyboard shows the large crows as it parts way for the ghost of his best friend (4) - Crows shots are shown as the protagonist walks away.
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