Developing Details

We've developed the storyboard and we're adding details to the personality of our main character. Now that Faye's sister has agreed to act in our film opening, I can begin imagining an accurate representation of our young artist. 

As a guide, we came up with a general outline of timestamps for filming and editing, how we imagine the final product will result in.

Something I pitched to Faye as a way to conclude our opening (and in that same sense, not conclude by continuing the story) is that she breaks her hallucination by getting up to drink water and calm down. We considered the possibility of someone in the house calling out her name to break her from her hallucinogenic trance, but Faye offered that perhaps we use a sound bridge to transition between the two scenes instead of showing the moment she snaps out of it. I loved that idea because it incorporates a more technical, yet simple editing element, but also may create a more seamless and natural transition to the next scene. 

The last shot of the opening we decided would be a pan from the character's eyeline to the refrigerator, where it can be read/revealed that she has a Doctor's Appointment that same afternoon. This short, but effective detail adds so much to the opening because it ties back into the complexities of the character and expands upon the idea that she is struggling with something medically and mentally, and we are also considering revealing that the glass of water (originally used as a way to calm down) is also used for her to swallow her pills.

Full Storyboard (Featuring Faye's illegible handwriting)

Faye completed the storyboard after some input I gave her and now I'm getting started on our screenplay. In class, our teacher Señora T. Stok gave us a lesson on screenwriting, which explained mostly to pay attention on making dialogue choices that sound natural or fitting to the scenario being written; however, so far our opening has no dialogue, so we only have to worry about the rest of the screenplay. Completing the screenplay will be vital because the screenplay will allow us to have a clear guide when it comes to filming, and then make editing much easier when all the scenes are organized. T Stok inspired me to log back into my dusty, long untouched, Celtx account, a free scriptwriting tool that we can use to complete our screenplay, so I'm getting started on that.