Storyboard Alterations

Storyboard Alterations

There were a few things that had to be altered in the process of filming and editing our opening which made our final edit different from our planned storyboard. These were:

The first change made between our storyboard and final opening was in frames 3-6 of the storyboard. The original plan was to open with an extreme closeup of Rose's face which would zoom out to a mid shot for a match-on-action to the camera spinning around her in the park. However, when it came to filming this scene the camera's zoom was not strong enough so we could not get both the extreme closeup and the mid shot in one clip. For this reason we changed the order of the shots (switching frames 5 and 6) zooming out as far as possible from the extreme closeup and then using the shot of the bridge to help the transition to her in the park.

The second change made was in frame 11. We had originally planned to have a shot where a hand comes into shot and grabs Rose's face.  We did film this shot but chose not to include it in of our published edits as it was decided that it was too out of context compared to the other shots and made the opening very trailer like.

Another change that was made during the filming stage of production was the location of frames 12, 13 and 14 on the storyboard. This scene was originally intended to be shot in a Aimee's kitchen, but when we got to there it was too small to get the framing we wanted. For this reason we changed the location to Aimee's living room  The room's furniture meant that we had to do a shot-reverse-shot instead of the circling shot, this did however mean we could include a match on action as Rose fell back into the bath in the next frame.

Frame 15 of our storyboard shows we had originally planned to have black water in the bath that Rose would submerge herself to make it seem 'weirder'. This water would then go into a black title screen. We then decided that this idea was unnecessary and would create too many questions as to why the water was black. We also knew it would be safe for the actress if we just had normal water.

Referenced numbers working from left
to right and top to bottom.

After this title screen, the original pan was to cut to a closeup in frame 17. However, while we were filming we decided to add in a long shot before it went to the closeup. This helps introduce the new location and also helps to lead the audience back into our montage whilst also acting as compensation for not having the planned chairs (seen in frame 18) which were not set out due to limited time whilst filming.

The final change that we made was to the closing scene in frame 24. We planned to have the doctor sit by Rose's side and repeat her name several times before she looks towards him. However, this made the opening come to too much of a conclusion like it was the end of a short film. So we chose to change the dialogue having Rose remain unresponsive and staring forward whilst the Doctor walks out of shot as though talking to a nurse out of shot.  We decided to change the editing of the shot as well. Instead of zooming out from a closeup to a long shot  we decided to change between the two before cutting back to the closeup as a way of transitioning to the the rest of the film.