Filmmaking- Storyboards

The next stage of the process is to visually plan out the commercial and how it's going to be shot, to do this I have drawn together a rough storyboard of how I imagine each shot to look and be framed. I'm not very skilled at drawing but I have tried to make sure that people can make out what is going on and understand the story and narrative throughout. These storyboards will help the cameraman and crew when it comes to filming, it gives them a better understanding of how the finished film will look, and provides something to go on for the cameraman when preparing his shot list.

 This is the first page of my annotated storyboard, featuring six panels, each panel been a new/different shot. The first four panels are all apart of the same sequence, being the storyline of the two kids. The first two panels show both children riding their bikes (covering the cycling area of the brief) and the fourth and fifth panel have the kids running towards this view of the coast and the all the towns, and ending with the girl giving the boy a kiss on the cheek. Now we've established a connection between them, the fifth panel jumps forward to their teenage years, where they are now camping with some friends (covering camping in the brief). This is a very nice, effective but simple shot of panning around the camp and capturing the teenage couple as she kisses him on the cheek. The sixth and final panel starts the next sequence of them in adulthood, it shows them now older preparing to climb a boulder of some kind (covering climbing in the brief).

This is the second page of the storyboard and continues on the adulthood sequence with the seventh and eighth panels been the woman reaching for the groove and finding the box and then the man proposing down on one knee as she turns around. Now we've established an engagement, we jump even further and they are now parents, the 9th, 10th and 11th panel is to be all one shot but drawing to give the idea of the motion of the shot. It starts on a close up of the rings showing they are now married, it moves out to reveal the happy couple holding hands and walking, and then we pan around the couple to reveal they now have children of their own. We've now covered many of the age groups and areas of people who would use this shop for outdoor activities with children, teenagers, adults and now families. The twelfth panel is a quick shot of the young girl feeding/stroking a horse (covering horse riding, a little little little bit).

  The third and final page only uses one panel to finish off the storyboard and commercial. The thirteenth panel is a group shot of the entire family fishing into the sea (covering fishing in the brief). I imagine it to be a still static shot but there is room for movement if it feels needed. This will be the final shot and then the Go Outdoors logo will appear, officially ending the commercial.