"Super"-Hero's Initial Storyboard!

    Welcome bloggers! In today's post, I will be discussing a storyboard my group has created for our film opening, "Super"-Hero! We got a lot of experience in storyboarding from our previous attempts, and I think this new plan looks and sounds WAY better than what we did for different movie and TV show clips!

Official Initial Storyboard for "Super"-Hero:

    With our opening being under 2 minutes long, our previous storyboarding will come in handy since we were working with a project of similar length. That being said, the only source material we could go off of was our own ideas of what "Super"-Hero would look like. To make the story board, we decided to tackle it as follows: Pablo would provide pictures and ideas for the location of the film, Pedro would brainstorm ideas for the first half of the film (from the robbers breaking in to the bedroom robbery), Yulian would brainstorm ideas for the second half of the film (from the bedroom robbery to the robbers escaping), and I would be drawing all of these ideas out and making notes on how each scene would play out. Although drawing out all of the storyboard seems like a Herculean task, having the creative input of my peers and discussing which ideas would work best actually made the storyboard progress way faster than if just one of us did the whole thing or if we split up the work. Additionally, the quality of the storyboard likely experienced a BIG increase when we tried this strategy.

    Obviously, the biggest challenge I personally encountered with this storyboard was how time-consuming it was to draw everything out. All in all, this storyboard took over 6 hours across two days, and even though all that time wasn't spent drawing stick figures, it was still exhausting after a while to be brainstorming how to piece together the story of "Super"-Hero. Aside from it being time-consuming, the middle act of the story was surprisingly VERY difficult to piece together. By that point there were worries about the storyboard ending up too short for the kinds of shots we were planning, and potentially making the final product look stale and more like security camera footage rather than an actual movie opening. With that in mind, I decided to break up the bedroom robbery sequence into more scenes that would add more depth to what was going on, as well as adding the unique shot at the end of the back of page 1 showing all 3 robbers' reactions to the entry of Power-Man. Aside from all of that though, the time spent was worth it, as this final product is something that even I feel pretty good about! Not just because it has a comic-like feel to it, but because this looks like something that we can transfer over to the big screen!