Oblig 6 Storyboard

Project 6

In groups (or as an individual) develop and produce a final storyboard from one of your treatments from the previous project.

For this project we were split into random groups of 4 people. Our group began by reading each other’s treatments, and before choosing a the final treatment we would be making into storyboard we also went over all of the treatment and came up with ideas to improve them as well as talking about some possible shots in each treatment that we believed would look cool in an short animation, to help us chose the final treatment. In the end we chose my treatment (look below).

After we had chosen the treatment we went in more details on how the shots should look like and what might be improved with the story. After choosing the story to work with, we began to discussion how to proceed with creating the storyboard, as would we use digital drawing or pencil drawings, and whether to have each person draw their own scene or split in different roles and all work on every drawing. In the end we decided to draw in Photoshop and splitting up in roles:

Kristoffer got the job of drawing perspective.
This would be handed to me for the environmental drawing.
This was then handed to Dan to be colored or retouched.
Tomas ended up drawing the character into each shot.

But we ended up discarding colors and Dan ended up drawing the environment inside of the bedroom and kitchen, end the last shot inside of the store. The roles did also overlap as we came closer to the delivery date, and Kristoffer got to draw some in the kitchen and in the neighborhood, I got a new character, the burglar, and Dan did also got the policemen and so on.

We continuously kept in contact with each other with exchanging shots, talking to each other on progress and helping each other.

Unfortunately at the end, the program we used to save out the storyboard, celtex, failed at creating a workfile which could be opened with a different program then celtex(we can't delever something the teacher can't open), and the addon which would make it able to make a PDF screwed up when the storyboard went over to a second page of the PDF and there it would overlap all of the text and add the images in the wrong order, and we only dicovered this right before delivery and after the rest of my group had gone for the evening. So I brought all the images and text over to word where I put it all together, added black lines around the images, which we had up to then not even thought about, and made the transition images (fade to black aswell as some more lines in the images) and finnaly made a new PDF which we could deliver.

In the end I think we worked together really well, we could do some improvements on some of the shots, we did have a lot of wide and long shots.

Some scetches I made for hand, most(not all) was used in the background as we draw in Photoshop.