Today I wanted to start storyboarding the ideas I had created yesterday, but even though I had created different ideas for my film, I was sitting in front of printed storyboard templates and still couldn’t draw anything. My ideas weren’t solid enough to actually draw them down on paper as a narrative.
So I spoke to my mum because I was really stuck and felt like I was running out of time to do things. We talked for nearly half an hour about the ideas i had, and where I could take my ideas from there, and to turn it into a film. I recorded the audio of the conversation, and by the end I was happy with an idea that we had created together.
Below shows a few minutes of the conversation we had:
Audio Diary of final idea creation
Standby (2016):
The final idea is inspired by a film that was shown at Ravensbourne open day for film production which we visited last year.
It’s called Standby and it’s a film showing the evolving relationship of two colleagues in the police, filmed in the front of a car, showing each day and the patrols they go on/things they get up to.
The film follows a similar idea I had in mind for my film, so I watched it again to refresh my memory.
Scenes from Standby (2016), Available at: https://vimeo.com/207630463
Final Ideas:
Below shows a couple minutes at the end of me and my mum's conversation, when we were finally discussing the final plot of the film I have in mind. In the video I also discuss the potential camera placements, lighting ideas, etc.
The audio is a bit muffled at the start but it goes away after a couple of seconds.
Audio Diary, discussing plot/camera placements/lighting ideas.
The narrative I now want to follow in my own film is showing a couples relationship, all filmed in the same spot, just on different days and showing different scenarios.
The idea is definitely inspired by Standby, in the fact that the same space is used, and the two characters interact with each other, but in my film I want to use a sofa instead of the front seats of a car.
I know that this idea is slightly different to the plan I had initially when writing my brief, but I think I can still use the skills I have been practising in terms of colour grading to show the change in emotions throughout the film, rather than in separate timelines.
Having multiple timelines I think is what has stressed me out a bit throughout this idea creation process, because I had the thought that I would need to create multiple storyboards/scripts/ and think about lighting, etc. for all of the the different timelines. Instead, now that I have an idea where I am following only one, but showing the progression throughout, I feel more relaxed in knowing I think I can produce a better film rather than trying to do a lot, and it end up being low quality because of that.
My mum and dad have both said it is fine to use them as actors, but I will still be looking out of for other people to use.
Because of this change of idea, I know I will need to edit and adjust my proposal brief. I will go into more detail in my next few blog posts, when I will start to actually draw my storyboard.
References:
Standby (2016), Directed by Charlotte Regan, Available at: Vimeo (Accessed 12/4/22)
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