Storyboard

 Our Storyboard

Now that we finally have our plot and are still discussing the name of the project and characters, we decided that we should draw out our storyboard. In our last class, we wrote down our ideas which I spoke about in another blog, but now we really wanted to visualize it. I am going to be showing each individual drawing, which was done by my group partner Alex, and going more into detail about what is going on.

The opening will start with Character B who is the little sister in her room, this will show the setting and the vibe we are going for this character. We will show shots of her messy room and in these, we plan to include the credits. The next cut will show Character A, who is the big sister, coming into her little sister's room to let her know that her friend is coming over. At that moment the big sister will also briefly mention the state of the little sister's room, which is very obviously dirty and messy. In the next cut, we hope to include the title of our piece while showing Character B's face and her reaction.

Then Character A will walk over to her own room, which is very visually contrasting to her sisters. While that happens Character B is still all alone in her room and receives a text message that reveals that she is being blackmailed. The next scenes are crosscuts as Character A is opening the door for her friend who was coming over, or Character C, and we also see Character B walking to the bathroom. The big sister and her friend will start talking about wanting to get food so, as siblings do, she goes to ask her little sister if she is hungry. While Character A is on her way to find Character B, we see her in the bathroom just blankly staring at herself with no expression. This is a key moment to cause worry. As the opening is about to end, the big plot is revealed, Character A walks into the bathroom after not finding her sister in her room and sees pills scattered on the floor. This is intended to show that Character B was struggling mentally and thought there was only one solution.

Since we chose to have our genre as coming of age we knew topics of mental health issues were very common, and we made this plot with that in mind. I really like the way we have our opening planned and it is a movie I would find interesting. I am excited to keep developing it and combining my ideas with my group members' ideas. I will be back on here soon with more updates.