We have now got to the stage of storyboard and planning our shots for the first scene of our short film. The scene will involve the killing of a drug dealer by the hit man. We use lots of quick cut shots to build up a tense atmosphere and a sense of action. We have tried to be more creative and dynamic without shots and camera movement since our first opening scene production, incorporating some bird’s eye view shots, shots following the movement of the character, focus pulls, silhouettes, extreme close ups, tracking, panning and more. We hope to think that we have a wide variety of shots that will keep the first scene interesting, different and dynamic. A couple of improvements we could make to our storyboard is to add more detail in the pictures to give a better understanding of the shot because at the moment they are very basic and would be hard to interpret by anyone who wasn't there when we were initially planning and drawing it up. Another improvement would be to add the duration of the shot to give us a better understanding of timing throughout our short film so we can manage it. Below are some photos of our storyboard for the first scene. Below are screenshots of our storyboard for our first scene, the pictures are fairly small but you get the idea.
