STORYBOARD

STORYBOARD

The final storyboard is an eighteen-panel storyboard, the reason being that I want to tell a somehow complex story in the simplest way possible. The drawings are sketches because I did not want a situation where I was going to come up with a comic book since the storyboard’s purpose is there to help me to pre-visualise the film and communicate and relay the message behind the film. I have used a lot of mid shots and close shots due to thematic message contained in the story which is of captivity and survival, I have also used the Dutch angle on the scene where the tomb tilts at an angle to signify to invoke a sense of mystery

Also, I have used forced perspective in the scene when Don grabs the tom’s epitaph. The reason behind that I used forced perspective was to induce a metaphor of a larger than life   sort of creature (Don), who is no longer a caged animal but a free, powerful and independent one.

In most of my shots I have tried to avoid flat staging, this was in line with  my story’s fast pacing. In order to bring in depth on to the scene setting I have used grids in drawing the foreground and the tomb and the alien space at a distance.

This is the final storyboard I will be using as a blue print  in creating my visual narrative.

These storyboards below are some of the previously done sketches during the  storyboard creation.In these  storyboards the narrative is much clear and  some of the  panels were not sketched properly, so in the end I had to redo it adding character and scene depth.

The below storyboards were  part of the line test.