Opening Storyboard

As a group we created a storyboard for our film opening. To do this, we used post-its and created a rough storyboard without a lot of detail. This was the hardest part as we had to come up with exactly what we wanted our opening to be like. These are pictures from our rough storyboard:

This is the storyboard we created:

Charlotte Morrison

Emily Wallace

Feedback of Initial/Rough Storyboard and Script

On our initial storyboard we have a scene of Stacey followed by a split screen of her and Bob. Then it's followed by a clip of Tom and a three way split screen of Stacey, Bob and Tom. This then was followed by a scene of Stuart and, finally, a four way spilt screen of all four characters. Feedback suggested this would work much better if we had a shot of Stacey then straight to the two way split screen, followed by the three then the four with no clips in-between to make it less confusing. This four way split screen will be followed by the clips of each character we initially planned on having between each split screen.

When we first meet Bob he is asleep on his keyboard with a gaming mic on his head and woken by dialogue through the mic. However, we realised after asking feedback from others that the non-diegetic music will be too loud for the quiet dialogue to be heard as we want them to realise it's coming through the mic. To fix this problem, the non-diegetic music will become quieter during Bob's scene so that the dialogue can be clearly heard.

Feedback of Final Storyboard and Script

There was little negative feedback for our final storyboard. They loved the split screen idea, gained a good understanding of each character and thought the small amount of dialogue was effective. However, they queried if the title should come up once the characters are seen closing their doors or after the sandwich is thrown at Bob's head (original timing). This query has not yet been resolved as we are still debating when the opening should end.

Scott Collins