StoryBoarding.

 Being camera operator, I had a meeting with Alice and we came up with some ideas for the opening scene which I am quite happy with. So I drew these story boards help show the group and visualise what the finished piece will look like. We are quite open to changes on the day but Alice wants us to know exactly what we will shoot.

We will start not actually showing the character, we will show him walking down the stairs, doing his shoes up, zipping his coat, picking up his letter, and licking it and the back of him walking out the door. Mostly with close ups, this with the music I posted about in the previous post, will create some humours mystery surrounding the character. Most of this will be shot on a tripod, still. We chose this because he is just starting his journey, not even setting off yet, we need to keep the pace quite slow, so we can build it up later when he begins his journey, then delivers.

Unfortunately I have a previously organised commitment on the day we actually shoot the journey part of the film, but I am shooting the opening sequence and the last scenes a couple of days after in York. I chose to be camera so I can learn more about operating cameras with actors, which I haven't done much at all. Along with this, I feel I need to learn more technically with cameras, Jay, Alice and Shelton will be on location if I have any problems, so this will be a good learning opportunity to get to grips with the camera.

In terms of the physical journey I have story boarded in the top image, although I wont film some of this, I drew the story board and showed Chris (who will be filming in my place) the storyboard and the Lying To You video I showed in a previous post. So he knows what kind of style we are looking for in terms of cinematography.