Creating the Storyboard is a little tricky... PP#3

    Last night I started working on the storyboard, and I have a pretty good idea of how the short film is going to start.  I'll scan what I have so far, and I'll proceed to work on it next hour during media studies.  But yeah, as of right now the creating of the storyboard isn't terrible, it's simple enough to the point where I've done it plenty of times before, but I'm approaching the part of the short film where the fight takes place and it's hard to approach it.

    I've watched a lot of tutorials on how to film a fight scene, but planning it is tough!  Using traditional storyboards is hard because not only am I really bad at drawing, but I don't believe it would match the pacing of the actual fight, which I want to be fast.  If I use the storyboards, I feel like they'll be too sluggish and won't match the tone that I hope to acquire.  One YouTuber I watched, his name is Ruustic, is a professional stuntman and fight choreographer.  You can find his channel here, I'd love to embed the videos that I watched, but my school apparently is blocking it :/  But yeah, he's the guy that I watched and garnered a lot of techniques on how to film the fight scene.  I plan on talking about the actual filming of the fight scene in a later blog post, maybe after this post, but now I want to talk about the planning of it.  

Really great video!  Helped me get started and taught me a lot of the basics.

    Like I said, I watched videos from Russtic, and he gave a good amount of insight on how to plan the fight, and it's vaguely different from anything I've ever had to plan before.  Storyboards have been my way to go, but the way that fight choreography is planned is beyond pens and paper.  It's physical.  They plan the fight in real life, rehearse it, and proceed to act it out on camera.  I think that's where I was stuck.  I thought that doing it on pen and paper would do the trick.  Turns out, that's only half of it.  Of course, planning on some paper prior to the fight is great, which is what I plan to do, I need some physical activity to see how it's going to work.  With that said, I'm most likely going to continue my storyboards and write the fight scene, while being cautious and expecting the actual action to come later.   

First two pages of storyboards!  (don't talk about my handwriting I'm well aware.)

    The two images above are my storyboards, in which they catalog the beginning portion, about 30 seconds in. It's an intro that's heavily inspired by YouTuber skits.  I plan for it to be pretty fast, not only so it follows the conventional styles seen within most YouTube videos (fast cuts, sarcastic tone from the character), but also to get straight into the action!  The main character would start out being extremely bored, eating shit, and then all of a sudden he hears the doorbell and gets super excited as he remembers what he purchased.  He rushes to the door, signs off the package, and slams the door on the mailman.  Then he takes it to his room and prepares to unpack.  That's about how much I got so far, I plan on doing some more later today during media studies.  But yeah, just wanted to give some insight as to how this storyboard is a little bit different from what I've done before, but that's okay!   I love doing things that I haven't done before, and expanding into new territory :D

-Noa