Group story board
As a group, we started this task by each of us drawing a range of things from: fictional/non/fictional characters, places, objects. We then began making connections between different things in order to create links which made the basis of our story.
After choosing the best 3 stories with the most potential, we created storyboards for each. This was rather difficult as each one had a limit of 6 frames in which there must be a protagonist, a problem, several obstacles which gets bigger each time and a resolution at the end. The main issue we had was following this structure whilst keeping the story original and exciting.
The storyboard we chose to present to the rest of the group was that of a soldier, Sgt Danny Jasper Jones who fought in an intergalactic war. He appeared to have been injured however as it story progresses it comes to light that he wasn't injured he was actually pretending to be. He was caught sleep walking. He was then put on trial where he was later found guilty of treason and sent to prison on Mars.
The general feedback from the group was that there weren't enough obstacles and the resolution wasn't satisfactory as the protagonist didn't really have a resolution to his problem on the end. It was suggested that maybe the soldier should've have escaped in the end. I understood the points raised nevertheless I thought that his escaping wouldn't be a resolution nor would it be realistic. Therefore, I opted to change the meaning behind the ending, his being imprisoned is a resolution because his experience at war was so traumatic that he'd rather be imprisoned than to be sent back to fight.
My storyboard
I decided to do a completely different story to the previous one that was chosen as a group because I no longer felt connected to it.
First Draft:
- Variations of cutlery, each in a section.
- All of the sections are empty apart from the one where the teaspoons are kept
- The teaspoon consults the high council. (serving spoons)
- Example of dinner time- Fork, spoon and knife where taking out but only a fork is being used to eat the spaghetti.
- 2nd example of dinner time- Spoon, fork and knife where taking out but only the spoon is being used to eat the rice.
- In the end, the teaspoon learns to be content as a piece of cutlery that is used occasionally with food/snacks such as yoghurt, tea, cereal.
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| 'The life and times of a teaspoon' |
I think you've shot your storyboard really well, especially the last 4. its also a great little story, everyone can relate to being left out of something or not fitting in, thats something which is universal. You said that you were thinking of doing an animation, which would work really well because you can manipulate the spoon in different ways to show emotion.
ReplyDeleteThe third image I find to be the most effective from your final storyboard. I think it works well because of the way you've grouped the other pieces of cutlery together and left the teaspoon alone suggesting it's isolation. Also the way the spoon is facing the other bits of cutlery suggests the same thing, but also a desperation to be included. However, something that could have also worked is a different perspective from the camera, perhaps a wider shot with more space between the spoon and the other pieces of kitchen ware, or a steep angle from the group of cutlery down to the spoon making it look small and insignificant in comparison. The final black and white images look quite sophisticated, almost like stills from a silent film or something. Maybe you could try a grainy effect on the photos, making them look old and worn, to suggest the nature of the story has been a part of many cycles of life.
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