Dance Video - StoryBoarding Rough Concepts

when Tom, Lucy and myself got together to discuss the individual roles we were assigning each other. I of course because I love to draw am a more creative person I volunteered and was assigned by Tom and Lucy to draw up a rough storyboard, so as we as a group had rough idea about how the film may look.

A rough sketch -

 



when presenting this to Rachel at our second tutorial, she really liked the storyboard and the wide establishing shot but also said we needed to consider the space and objects within the space and weather these things will impact our film.

 

notes taken from the second tutorial we needed to consider -

 

-Try braking everything down to scenes and tasks

 

-ask that the dancer is confident with improvisation and ready to develop dances with us
IMPORTANT

-Think through the type of dance, and break down each individual bit of the synopsis line by line
explain that the reflection is a metaphor for the true self.

Synopsis we needed to break down line by line -

In a dark minimalistic room we see a person dancing using repetitive, monotone in nature and constrained movements, as if stuck in his daily routine without any hope. However his mirror reflection tries to convince him to break out of his routine, at first with no result as the person tries to ignore his reflection. However as the film progresses the person will slowly “break free” from his former self, starting to incorporate fluid movements in to his monotone routine, eventually ending up fully on dancing and leaving his past self behind. At the end of the film, both person and reflection become actual mirror images, as if the person has finally found his true self.