storyboarding.

For the first time I had to do a pre-filming storyboard, in groups of four we had to create storyboard for a person walking down a corridor, opening a door and gonig to meet another person. which on first instance sounded simple, but for newcomers it wasn't!
During the film had  to include severn camera angles which were: - A Long Shot -Close Up -Mid Shot-Shot Reverse Shot-Match On Action - 180 Degree Rate -Extreme Cut.

close up shot of a flower

As a group we all took on a different scene to create the storyboard for, I was given the task of doing the door scene, which I also offered to do. It was slightly confusing at first, because nothing exciting springs to mind when looking at a door. All in all I decided to use a Mid Shot of the actors hand on the door, followed with close a close up of the actors hand as he pulled down the door handle to give emphasis on him opening the door. Then the third shot of the door was use a reverse shot from the other side of the door, to show the actor as he is coming through the door on the other side, and the final shot of the door used was the 180 Degree Rate of the actor as he had come through to the room on the other side of the door, this was used so that when the filming was done you could the actor coming through the door and also see the chair he was going to sit on.

At first it took some getting used and you had to try and be imaginative but once we had done one ot two shots we started to get the hang of it, the next job on the list was to starting filming.