Storyboarding Meeting

Today we got all our story board ideas together and decided which ones we wanted to use, and in what order we were going to use them.

Firstly, we cut all our different storyboards up so we could then re-arrange them in the order we felt most suitable. The most crucial thing was that our trailer was to remain essentially in two parts, the first half where we wanted to tease our audience into thinking this was the teaser trailer for an action/spy movie, then there was to be a turning point, after which the trailer would clearly be a spoof of the action genre. This first picture of the storyboards being cut up prior to them being re-arranged.

Once we had cut out all our different ideas, we decided how we were going arrange them, considering the two different 'phases' of our trailer. This is me (left) and Tom deciding what order we were going to put different scenes in. We had about 15 ideas to work with but we wanted to cut this down to about 10 ideas so the trailer would be no more than about 90 seconds long, which was the time we were looking for to enable us to show off as many of our skill as possible, but also stay within the conventions of a teaser trailer, which is usually between 30-120 seconds long.

When we decided which ideas to use, we placed them in order on the floor so we could easily move them around, add scenes or take them away. After doing this, we added up the total time our trailer came to, which was about 80 seconds, but we figured that in editing this would change and would probably come out longer than this due to experience producing a film before, which was meant to be 4 minutes long but ended up being 10 minutes long, before it was cut down to 7 minutes. So bearing this in mind, a total time of 76 seconds was acceptable. Once we decided the final order, we glued the storyboard onto A3 sheets in order, marking on the timings and any slight changes we wanted to make to the shots.

These are the ideas for scenes we rejected. On the left are shots which include the title which is normally at the end of the trailer, but these were rejected because we already had story boards for these. In the middle is a scene taken from the James Bond films, where Valentine would've appeared in a circle appearing sophisticated, but then falling over in cominc fashion. This was rejected due to the lack of appropriate technology, like CGI, to produce it effectively. On the top right is a scene featuring Valentine using a gun that produces bubbles. The scene on the mid-right was changed to a scene which made it into the final storyboard plan, and the scene on bottom right features Valentine getting out of a car in half light, in pouring rain which would've been in slow motion. This was rejected because it would have been too complicated to produce because we would've had to set up a hose to spray water into the frame and we would've needed a cool car (such as a Range Rover as suggested in the storyboard) but both of these would be difficult.

R.K.