Storyboarding

In todays lesson we watched the opening scene of the film 'Back to the Future', and were asked to draw up a story board analysing the key images, sound effects and camera movement from the clip.

The scene begins with one long continuous shot which last appoxamately 2 minutes. We showed this on the story board by putting arrows between each key image, illustrating the direction that the camera was tracking in.

After drawing up the story board we then, as a whole class, had a discussion, analysing each others work focusing on the good and bad parts. For example, had the group included all of the key images, or given enough detail when writing about their images. In our case our drawings weren't clear enough and our arrows showing the continuous shot's direction of movement were a little confusing. Getting feedback on this task has helped us get a better perspective on what needs to be demonstrated in our childrens film storyboard - next time we will take more care over our illustrations and make our arrows showing camera movement clearer.