In this production which consisted of Scott as the photographer, Dom as actor and myself as the other main actor we where to produce some sort of story using one shot photos. The title was called "The Meeting". So my main task was to produce a storyboard on what we will do.
I went for a personally classic idea of 2 people meeting up, ending in a face off and then left on a cliffhanger. However, my take on this is that there is mystery and suspense added because the shots taken show Dom looking bad and serious and in a hurry (Why?) and then there is me looking calm at 1st and as if i am waiting for someone, (who?).
The length of each shot varied as i made a video of the shots and put it with theatrical music. So some shots lasted 2 seconds, some lasted 3-4 seconds when showing more important scenes. They also synced quite well with the music like making some sort of still shot trailer.
The 1st shot is a medium shot of me leaning against a pillar outside a building. With this shot you cannot see as an audience what building i am at. It is then changed to a crane shot scene of Dom walking down a public path. We used a crane shot to get variety of shots and show his dominance on this lonely public path. Then a jump cut is used to show him slightly further up the road. A white flash appears at the beginning of each of these scenes to build up tension and go with the music. There is then a close up shot of me looking at my phone, this is to capture my reaction of this. Then a white flash fades in to Dom looking at his phone. However we used a tilt shot looking up to Dom because we wanted to show the "power" that this character has over us as a viewer.
We then use a basic transition of a bar dissolve after Dom's picture to change scene completely.
Then as the music builds into a beat, it fits in nicely with the next scene. Which is tension of Dom beginning to run down this path. We still used one shot photos but did it on quick capture flutter on the camera so it took lots of shots per seconds. We achieved this by using tracking on Dom, it showed movement. Between each single shot of Dom running, more white flashes are used for the tension building.
The next scene is a transitional effect of the screen exploding into bits to reveal a shot in 1st person view of my phone and a turning point in the story. This was done so the audience could read my message on my phone and ask who is it from? Dom?
Following this was the use of extremely close up shots of mine and Dom's faces to get the characters reaction to what they have just seen. I am shocked and Dom is stern. These images were edited and given a sepia tone which turns things a darker yellow type colour. Like an old photo. This is because i wanted to show that this scene is important to the characters as well as the audience and with a change of lasting colour it should be remembered.
Finally to get more camera shots and cinematography, I came up with this idea to show a stand off between the two characters facing one another from some distance. This was to be shot using depth of field into shallow focus and vice versa. It happened the opposite way around for each characters 3rd person view on screen. It builds the tension of a stand off and what will happen now? Depicts opposite sides. (good vs. evil etc)
After a "to be continued" which was added on the video, I replay the shot of the 2 characters faces split in half on screen. Once again contrasting character. It was edited with a paintbrush/comic affect that makes it seem everlasting. Like a painting.
Hope you enjoyed.
