The second phase of the project in terms of a storyboard comes from a combination of two things. The first is a wonderful application called storyboarder, which allows you to use your computer to draw on your screen and build a storyboard from scratch. I had a few ideas in my head and was able to draw a few of them inside a storyboard using that application. I honestly cannot believe that its completely free and I love using it, even though my storyboards look like they’ve been drawn by a kindergartener.
The second aspect of the story boarding campaign comes from mocks of what I want to film. I tested a few ideas out to see if what I wanted to do was feasible, and then I decided from there how I would alter the story that I had outlined. I did things such as examine whether or not I could properly cover street lamps to artificially alter the lighting for the scene(I could not) and also tried out various angles to see if they would look good for the project, using a Halloween prop as a stand-in for my actors. Overall this process was pretty effective and caused me to reconsider some of the things that I had previously thought would be a good idea.
Overall this process allowed me to go through all of the aspects of production to determine what would work and what wouldn’t, while allowing me to maximize my ability to film effectively given a budget of zero.
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