First Draft Storyboard

One of my pre-production tasks was to create the storyboard. The first stage of this that I thought would make the task easier was to work alongside Jack who produced the synopsis. By working alongside Jack to discuss the story line and series of events, I produced a very rough storyboard that would help me to organise the real thing.

 The page on the left shows the very rough story board. Although it has no writing or description of what is happening in each frame and scene, the drawings was what I was focusing on. It shows the opening shot of the stomach and our production title 'Carpe Diem'. It then goes through the baby scan and the baby being born and growing up to when he's at his first day at school and meets his girlfriend. he then breaks up from her, where a small amount of sadness is shown by rain and the paper ripping when their hands are held. He then grows to a teenager, completing his GCSE's, competing in races (representing growing up fast and the experiences you go through). He then meets another love who he falls in love with, goes on dates with and loses his virginity to. He then has his 18th birthday, where he's shown celebrating by going out clubbing, then moving onto University and his graduation.
The next page shows the travelling part of the story, where he flies off to visit Spain, Paris and other round-the-world places, whilst drinking cocktails, swimming in pools, and parachuting out of aeroplanes. He then marries his girlfriend and the beginning of the story of seen again, with a stomach and sperm moving towards the belly button. This shows the life cycle starting again.


After having a group meeting about the synopsis and the draft storyboard, it became clear that the main thing we wanted to focus on -travel, was not covered enough. I had managed to introduce the story a lot by showing a lot of his life growing up, but not enough travelling. From looking at the storyboard, we found that the storyline seemed too simple and not interesting enough. Although we wanted to represent Bill's life, we felt that there wasn't a 'middle' to the story, instead just a beginning and end. To give ourselves an event that would create a problem of some sort, we decided that Bill's girlfriend, Amy would be the one who turns eighteen first and travels the World, encouraging Bill to do the same. He would go on to uni, where Amy sends his postcards reading the message 'Seize the Day' which would inspire him to finish university with good grades and see the World for himself.


Another event in his life that we changed was breaking up with his first girlfriend rather early on in the story. As we had discussed in earlier meetings, we want Bill's life to be portrayed as something that other people will look up to, or to inspire. We thought that having him break up with his girlfriend would be realistic, it's not what we think would inspire, or distract from the bigger picture of him travelling.