Storyboard created! PP#8

         Hello and welcome back to another week of my blogging process, I hope you're enjoying your stay.  I've been working quite a bit on the portfolio project, and managed to actually finish the storyboards.  With the help of Spotify Premium, I was able to knock out the story board in no time! 

        I apologize for making the photos so large, but that was the only way to make the wording and pictures legible since the photos only have such a limited resolution.  But with that out of the way, I'd figured I'd just go ahead and explain the premise of the opening, giving insight on what is going to happen!

        Starting off with page 1, the start shows a knight and his fellow squire out in the middle of nowhere.  You can tell that they've been through quite a bit.  Not only are they barely standing, but the front knight seems to be bleeding tremendously.  With one last final gasp and step, he trembles onto his knees, with death very close insight.  The fellow squire, shocked, proceeds to hold his dear friend in his hand, crying at the unfortunate fate.  They exchange the usual stereotypical last words, like "Tell my family I love them.", as the squire proceeds to be filled with sorrow and gives a large yelp "NOOO!" right after his demise.  

        With this start in mind, I figured I'd break it down, and I'll do the same for the rest of the opening once I talk more about it in this blog post.  But for this start, I wanted the two characters opening in this scene to be displayed in a pretty vast open space.  In a little bit, (which I'll include in another blog post, so stay tuned!) I plan on doing some location scouting, and with this prompt, all I'm really looking for is a dry, large, open patch of land that is devoid of people.  Moreover,  with the outfits, I said I plan on either going to Party city or just making something at home with household supplies, since, you know, I'm on a budget by the way!  One last thing to point out is that for the fake blood, I think a good substitute would be maybe ketchup?  I feel like it would look both real enough to convey that the character is bleeding, but give enough to the idea that this is all just essentially a skit, much like a comedy.

        

        After that, a match-cut is shown in order to imply that the whole scene within the two nights was just a figure of their imaginations as they were just playing DnD, a tabletop roleplaying game.  Nick finishing the long exaggerated "NOO" raises confusion amongst the table when the Dungeon Master Josh tells David that he is in fact dead.  David doesn't take the news kindly and is rather confused/mad about how he actually died.  The player and the DM argue a little bit more, and at the end of it all, David settles with the idea of him being dead.  

    

        This whole remaining section is just going to take place from either within my own house or possibly one of my friend's houses (since I am moving after all.)  I have all the gear for this part of the opening, so it could theoretically get filmed prior to anything else, but for ease of sake for not only my friends, and me, we'll just film in order of the events.  

        David gets a text on his phone shortly after accepting defeat.  And although the audience can't really tell what's going on, it's fairly obvious that it isn't good considering the look on not only David's face but on everyone else.  He proceeds to head out while the concerned look on everyone's face stays.  The title card swings as the door closes.