Storyboard Final Draft

As this is the final draft of the storyboard, I spent more time on the drawings for this one and there are also a lot more frames in total. For this storyboard there was a total of 28 frames for the film, and I tried to make sure to cover every scene as fully as I could, without being excessive. When doing the drawings, I did sometimes struggle with making things like the mirror look more real, like it wasn't just an empty doorway or something, and often had to make small adjustments to what I was doing such as adding lines across the glass to show that it's there, and using different tones within the mirror.

I was able to reuse some of the drawings from my other draft as some of the shots were the same, which meant I had some additional time to be able to re do some of them to improve the quality of the drawings. I also had to re do some of them because I hadn't had the final shot list, and so they had to be changed to match what the camera was going to be doing and how the DOP wanted to frame the shot. I also tried to include the direction the camera was going to be moving in the shots to make it easier for the director and AD to know what was going on, and wrote about what the camera was meant to be doing and whether it would be using a dolly, slider or shoulder rig and anything like that.

To improve the accuracy of my drawings, I often took photos of my own hands or arms so that I could draw them to look more realistic. I also asked people to help me with the photos so that I could have more than one arm in the photos at a time. I also had to keep up the same style of drawing throughout which required a lot of referring back to the sketches I had already done, and in addition to this I had to be observant about continuity and making sure if I had drawn something one way in a frame, that in follow up frames it would have to be the same, which was sometimes hard to keep track of. The angles in mirrors are tricky as well, as when I first began drawing I had to ensure that if in one shot the character was moving her arm in one direction, then the reflection would go in the same way but with the opposite arm to what you would think... if that makes sense.