WEEK 3
During our first week in storyboarding, we were shown some examples of storyboards and how to create a successful and cohesive story using angles, character designs, and composition.
We also did a few very short and quick observational sketches, where we watched a movie and paused it in a few random spots and drew what we saw using an understanding of values and contours of the scenes. these would be for about 5 minutes per drawing.
Another activity we did in this rotation was we drew our classroom without taking our pencil off the paper, and I decided to do a panorama styled drawing of the class.
WEEK 4
We went to Tate Modern to do some observational sketches of people and artworks, and tried to get many different angles of the people there.
While still in Tate Modern and in the area around, we did more observational sketches but keeping in mind everything we learned in our first week of this rotation, such as composition and what different angles could mean.
I then developed one of the drawings from these 3 sketches into a short 3 panel storyboard.
The last activity we did in this rotation was a 20-60 panel storyboard, of two characters having a conflict, using all the information we learned from the previous classes. I designed my two characters, a father and his daughter in the setting of a café for the daughters birthday, but they get sent into a creepy magical forest and get chased by monsters. I tried to focus on very intense and dynamic angles to tell the story a lot more, and I really like how it turned out, I think this was my favourite piece in this rotation. I love my characters and I’d like to animate this storyboard at some point. 🙂