Sunday 5 December 2010

Mood Boards - What are they ?

Task 1 - A significant moment in my life

Here is the mood board I used to show my story, I haven't applied any specific style like you can see in the mood boards samples above.

Task 1- The story

Script Writing/ Screenplay Writing Trial

Script Writing/ Screenplay Writing Trial (PG 2)

Script Writing/ Screenplay Writing Trial (PG 3)

Key things I have noticed about screenplays.

  •    EXT. (Means exterior) INT.(Interior) - Inside or outside
  •    Next to EXT. "Is written the name of the place where the scene is taking place"
  •    Next to the name of the place where the scene is taking place is written the time (Dusk, Evening, Night, Morning, etc.)
  •    The description of an action  or place is aligned with EXT.
  •    Character's name is placed right before dialogue, in the middle of the screenplay's page.
I personally want to include actions (as the dialogue goes on) to my screenplay.

Task 3 - A Ghost girl story


































For the characters > The daughter could be a teenager around 16 years old and the young girl, hitch-hiking, could be around maybe 9 or 10 years old.
(the reason why the age difference is so big between the two girls is because in real life, girls the same age are more likely to interact with each other, befriend each other very easily, but since in the story it sows that there is no interaction between the two girls, we thought it would make sense to make one way older than the other.)

Just getting some visual ideas that might help write a better script based on the given story

My moodboard for the script

             I always pictured the              Ghost girl loves red,                                       Environment: 
                 wearing a flannelled                but this time around                                       Bumpy road, scary
                 top with a piercing on             she was wearing a red                                   dark trees, dark grey sky,
                 her face.                                     scarf on a grey dress                                     dark clouds.

My own script (The ghost girl) - Page 1

My own script (The ghost girl) - Page 2

My own script (The ghost girl) - Page 3

































Links to original script, below

http://www.mediafire.com/?q2ek4q04bknzrrk or http://www.mediafire.com/file/q2ek4q04bknzrrk/My%20ghost%20script.celtx

Combining my ideas with the group' ideas

Combining my ideas with the group' ideas-PG 2

Final Moodboard

Final Group script - PG 1

Final Group script - PG 2

Combining my ideas with the group' ideas-PG 3


































Links to original script, below
http://www.mediafire.com/?idsie36xsszq051

Summary of the whole task

Summary of the whole task - pg 2

Task 4- Swapping screenplays with another group > Storyboarding

Just looking at different storyboards

































The 2nd storyboard is a black and white one, few arrows used as well. The background is a water colour one, the main focus was on the character, so it seems. Not much movement indications, the text below each frame does the talking.

Task 4- Swapping screenplays with another group > Storyboarding PG 2

Task 4- Swapping screenplays with another group > Storyboarding PG 3





































I don't like the way the movements are indicated on theses      
storyboards, because it's difficult to make the difference           
between a character's movement and a camera movement.    

Every movement (Both character and camera)   
is indicated by arrows with informations

Simple commercial storybpards

Black and white watercolour style

Very colourful commercial storyboard - watercolour style

My own storyboard Practice > Just a draft

>Mixing and applying my favourite style to it.



































Apparently some of my frames had too many arrows indicating too many movements, (Frame 2> the bag moving up and down on the ground, the guy running at the back and the bag's handle swinging).

Storyboard > Standard movement indications

Swapped screenplay > PG 1

Swapped screenplay > PG 2

Swapped screenplay > PG 3

Swap screenplays > My characters' Designs

Ghost girl > My character design

My own character design - (The daughter)

My characeter design - the daughter

My own character design - (The Father)

My character design - the father

My own character design - (The Ghost's mother)

My character design - the ghost's mother

My own drawing and colouring style fro the storyboard draft

My own storyboard draft for the swapped screenplay - PG 1

Now I will try to apply that style to my own storyboard for the swapped script, then using my ideas and the groups' ideas, we will finalize it.

My own storyboard draft for the swapped screenplay - PG 2


































-This is not the final storyboard

  • This is just like a draft or more like some experimentation on colours and drawings styles.
  • This is what I intend to present to my group, in order to combine our different ideas and come up with a final storyboard.
  • I personally like the style though I think the colours might be too bright, too rich. And also on one of the frames, the father's head is too big  for the body, this needs fixing.
  • another mistake I need to rectify for the final storyboard, is the position of the driver's seat, instead of being on right on the first page of the storyboard, it should be on the right like on the left (Like instructed on the script).

Combining the different ideas - PG 1

Mixing my storyboard' ideas with those from the group (Including mood boards).

The final character design - The ghost girl

Combining the different ideas - PG 2

The final character design - The daughter

The final character design - The father

The final character design - The ghost's mother

Final Storyboard - Pg 1