Hello!

This week we are continuing on our final storyboard project with making a floor plan to place characters and camera positions. We will also be starting our design process for the hard surface prop.

Here’s what’s expected for homework this week:

Plan view of scene location, characters, camera placements (number them) - pencil ok!
1 page character line-up (can be silhouettes or rough sketch)
2 pages of rough storyboards for movie scene: Include script lines/main action, shot type, characters, and perspective grid/horizon line for each storyboard, 4 storyboards per page - pencil ok!
1 page of 10 (minimum) silhouettes prop ideations - black marker
1 page of 4 detailed prop ideations - pen/marker

After making a floor plan, we will be using it to rough out the 8 boards that were noted in the script annotations. Where you place the camera in the floor plan will determine what kind of perspective will be in the board. Here are the rough steps for this process:

1) Draw frame for aspect ratio.

2) Write down what the action is. Perhaps a script line?

3) Based on your notes, block in the characters and action with the appropriate shot type

4) Establish the horizon line based on the block-in of the characters.

5) Rough in the perspective grid, matching the floor plan/camera placement drawing. (There may be some back and forth adjustments between rough boards and floor plan)

For prop ideation, we will start with silhouettes first. Depending on what the object is, you may choose a particular view that would be the most useful to explore different shapes. For example, I will use a profile view of the “gravy boat car” for my ideations.

For the detailed prop ideation, we will take 4 of the best silhouettes to develop larger. Similar to the ideations from the treasure chest, we will add more details and forms based on the reference pages.