I decided to re do a storyboard, shot list and floor plan that I had created for the first assignment again.

These are the results:

I know the instructions for this part were to keep the camera position to around 3 to 4. I struggled a bit with keeping less than 3 or 4 camera positions. I think that I have become a bit too conditioned to ‘Hollywood style’ conversation movement. Going back and forth of mid shots of each character is how I always imagine a scene if I’m reading a script. I drew this storyboard and shot list around a week or two ago now and I think even after just watching a few extra scenes I have realised how important it is for me to get rid of this idea in my head. I want to be able to imagine scenes in a different and more simple arrangement.

For example we watched a clip in one of the online sections from The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi 1963). I really loved the coverage in this scene, it was simple but worked really well. You don’t necessarily need complicated camera movements and angles for a scene to be effective and I don’t think I had quite learned that yet when I was creating this storyboard. I also still think I could work on my drawing skills more. For example I don’t think the sizes of the faces quite make sense. When I wanted it to look like their face was closer, it didn’t quite have that effect… But the solution to this could be that I label each shot with what type of shot it is, medium or close up, for example. Also the perspective of the wallet doesn’t make sense as much sense as what I would have liked. I had imagined the shot to be a close up of the wallet and pan up to the face and I wasn’t sure how to draw this so it is all drawn in one shot, which doesn’t quite make sense. Although I suppose the shot list is there to remedy some possible confusion. 

As much as I’m not quite pleased with how this turned out, I will practice again soon!