Storyboarding

Monday 16th November 2020

Today we were making storyboard but not ordinary storyboard. We were trying to work fluidly like with the inkblots, we had to consider how we would scale things and not use blocky storyboards because films are fluid as you don't notice the transitions. These type of storyboards are supposed to help with playing with the concept.

Sometimes I feel there is no point to going to school and that I came to school to play and I'm not happy about it.

For research into fashion promotion and light, I looked at Blade of Light by Alexander McQueen and Nick Knight, the process behind the photographs (Unseen McQueen). I also learnt a bit about the Kuleshov Effect. The Kuleshov effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

For the workshop of today, I had to think about what 'Altered State' meant to me (an altered state of mind) and also think about the camera positions as well in the storyboarding. A reason why storyboarding is used is to get your idea across to people who are helping with the project. This type of storyboarding that we did was not like the last type of storyboarding-there weren't small boxes to draw our ideas on, instead it was a blank piece of paper to let the imagination run free or something like that.

Similarly, the inkblots were supposed to do that but the inkblots didn't help to free up any ideas at all and really it did nothing for me but maybe I was just in the wrong state of mind.

During the whole storyboarding workshop I tried to think about camera angles, when the camera changes and why, I could have used alternative materials like sketch and paint but I didn't maybe this would have made me more imaginative, honestly I preferred the boxes to that. It was hard to keep the order so I decided to add annotations and also so that I could remember what I drew. But ultimately, I would say that I 100% prefer the usual storyboarding to the abstract storyboarding.

Makes no sense really but I tried.

For the last idea I wrote a poem and the idea has to do with a tall man and/or some video behind it. Here is the little sketch of it.