Storyboarding the Month

Super 16mm Camera

I’m in London. I’m at the LFA. Its good.

In fact thats an understatement its fantastic. I’ve had two days of lectures in which I have learn’t about still photography (apertures, focal lengths, shutter speeds, ASA numbers and other technical things, I’m sure you don’t want me to get into on here) and framing which was factually and inspiringly taught by cinematographer Mark Carey (Show Reel). Apart from this lecture all the focus has been on storyboarding and developing our own dramatic story that we want to make in this month.

The story has to be written in prose storyboard form and must be a visual story as we are not allowed to use dialog. This means the viewer must be able to understand the story just by the watching images. For my idea I’m playing around with a game of ‘snap’ and trying to tell a dramatic story through it.

I’ve been meeting many new people at the film school and in the halls where I’m living, many names to remember but I’ll get there. The halls are great, comfy and larger than I had expected...if only I had known this before coming up I needn’t of been so harsh with what I packed and what I left.

Tomorrow I’m going out with a group of my fellow students with a stills camera. With this we will pose out the key scenes from each others stories and find the shot that we would like to film in a few weeks time. By doing this I will gain a photographic storyboard and a strong visual way to pitch my film Idea.