storyboard film

for our task we had to choose a partner and create a six framed storyboard sequence which demonstrated the use of 'Theater of the Mind' after we did so we then had to import or six frames onto the mac PC and edit each frame into a small sequence. i worked with Rayna and our sequence is called 'The Deal'. the first shot is a long shot of two men walking into an office and finding a man dead in his chair with a note in his hand. the next shot is a close up of the dead man's hand with the note in it. we then used a two shot of the two men reading the note. then we have a mid shot of a suitcase on the desk. the next shot is another mid shot of man number 1 opening up the suitcase and our last shot is a two shot of the two men with the suitcase, man number 2 looking frightened and man number 1 with smug grin on his face. we created various theater of the mind moments within this small sequence. The first moment we use theater of the mind is when we see the guy sitting in the chair. we are unable to tell if he is dead or alive so at this point the audience is wondering who he is and whats up with him also what and why the two other men are in there. The second time we used theater of the mind is when the two men are reading the note the audience can't see whats in the note so they don't know whether the note is good or bad. the next time we use theater of the mind is when man number 1 opens the suitcase and then we see man number 1 and 2's facial expressions in the last shot. by looking at the last shot and the way it fades into black could be a suggestion that something bad may be about to happen to man number 2 and that man number 1 had been part of another plan to get rid of him it leaves you thinking about many alternative endings because at the start it seemed as tho they were partners and in on something together and by watching the end it seems as though man number 2 was cut out of the last part of the deal.
our use of theater of the mind was successful, we used it more than once we tried to make the audience have to question each shot i.e whats this? who is he? why is he there? etc. which Rayna and i agreed went quite well we also asked other people what they thought about it and they seemed to enjoy it and also agreed that the theater of the mind was used very well.
if we could improve it i think could have took more time with the drawings, maybe add a few more shots to build up more suspense and use more transitions and a small bit of dialogue.
before doing this task i wasn't able to use iMovie i found it difficult but since finishing this task and a little help i now get the hang of it and find it a lot easier to use, it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be.