Making Storyboards

Everyone in the group got a different part of the story to draw up storyboards for. I ended up with the scenes of the newsroom after Caitlin comes back from the principal's office, when Ehrlich comes in to congratulate Cait on her article, and she stresses over whether to apologize while everyone else works on the next paper. I've seen some of the storyboards the rest of my group is drawing as well. The funny part is how varied our artistic skills/styles/abilities are.

This is going to make the presentation tomorrow kind of funny, as we'll be cutting back and forth between these different frames. The best are fairly detailed drawings, and the worst are literally stick figures with no faces, and often no arms and legs either! My own are somewhere in the middle, being very cartoonish, but at least getting the shots and angles across clearly. That is the primary function of storyboards anyway, so I think my style works pretty well.

We've also decided that we're going to stick to our guns more than usual tomorrow. In the past, we've hemmed and hawed over what our story was really about, and generally conceded to whatever the professor then told us it was about. Not anymore. We have a very clear idea now of how we see the story, and while we're still open to critiques, we're going to hold to the general direction we have now. At some point we have to stop radically changing the story, or we'll never be able to shoot and finish the movie by the end of the semester.