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Storyboarding our project

 Storyboarding is an important step in the creation of nearly every film. Before you make a film, you might think that you'd be able to just go out there and make it, without a plan in mind, but the truth is, if you're going to have a relatively long film and you aren't exceptionally talented in making the perfect on-the-spot decisions, it can be useful to map out your project before it actually happens, to draw out the scenes, where you want things to be. It's useful to think about the sound, the lighting, the camera position in order to convey whatever message you want the viewer to see.

As for our storyboard, we made it while working together. There was a lot of discussion as to exactly how we could make the most compelling intro for our film, and we decided on many things while creating our story. Firstly, we decided to make things simple and condense the story into four "Scenes" (for lack of a better word). The first scene was before getting into the car, the second scene was being inside the car with all the passengers, the third scene was being inside the car with all the passengers missing, and the final scene was outside the car with the sole driver having a mental breakdown.

All of us worked together to pitch in ideas and fine-tune our film, with Arturo in particular taking care of coming up with many details, for instance, him coming up with the way that we plan to cut from having all the passengers to none of the passengers (involving an invisible cut and switching the camera position from the front mirror to the passenger seat). Alejandro made the drawings, and helped finalize the final scene, and I wrote out the text and helped with ideas for the sound, lighting, and camera angles.

Something that we did is that we wrote all of the text first and dedicated much more space to written description of our film, instead of drawing. We also wrote down the transition types. Then we put drawings showing what the scene would look like at the top.

This was definitely a very beneficial exercise, as although we somewhat knew what our film would look like before the project, we weren't quite sure exactly how we'd carry it out, where we'd film, how we'd make the backseat passengers disappear, and many of the fine details. With this storyboard, we've ironed out the kinks in our plan and we are now almost ready for filming.

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