Creating my storyboard

I decided to use scene eight of my screenplay (the flashback scene) to create a storyboard around, due to it being an integral scene in the story and it being a scene that was easy to facilitate in terms of location, since I could use my own house and bedroom. I asked three of my friends to be actors in the scene with Molly Farrer playing Holly, Persie Bell playing Clara and Mia Jarvis playing Amber. Molly and Mia had both already had acting experience through doing drama GCSE, so taking the pictures generally went very smoothly and we were quickly able to get the shots done. I had planned my storyboard in advance with very rough pen drawn images of the different shots I wanted to achieve. There didn’t seem to be many risks when we took the majority of the photos, since our locations were my room and the landing outside. However, the end of the scene is the part where Amber falls down the stairs, so when were taking the picture where she fell, Mia lowered herself slightly over the banister and shook her head and her hair to give the effect in the picture hat she was falling. When doing this we made sure that two of us kept a strong hold on her so that she didn’t actually fall herself.
Once the photos for the scenes had all been taken, I assembled them on Microsoft Word into a story board format, with a description and explanation for each shot by its side. This was where I explained why each shot would work within the scene and how these shots should work together to create the overall flow of the scene. This was how I created my storyboard.