AICE Media Studies

   

       After lots of contemplation and working out logistics, I have decided to change the beginning of my film.  The opening scene in my original design included a spaceship that would crash into Earth.  Originally, I imagined this crash to be a stop motion section of the film.  The spaceship was going to be made from Legos . I thought it would be neat to build the spaceship and the Legos would allow me to have the spaceship slowly break apart piece by piece and one frame at a time. Also the viewer would see the crash from an outside perspective. This would then fade to me walking. I have decided that a stop animation at this point would be an aggressive plan.  It would require me to learn an animation program in addition to filming all the other parts.         So I have altered the plan.  I have instead opted to add a clip of the spaceship crashing into earth from a ground perspective. I feel this will add a greater weight to the concept of this crash.  Stylistically it will feel mo

My first attempts at a storyboard were not very good. I was able to add notes to the illustrations to add some clarity. However, the idea was still quite mottled. When I did a redraw of the storyboard and decided to change the style. I wanted the storyboard to have imagery but to capture what the frame would look like and tell the story.  I liked it and redid the rest of the storyboard the same way. My original drawing  Version 2

Dialogue is an important part of movies and creates the most important scenes for plot development. However, most dialogue scenes are not as memorable as action scenes. For this reason I decided to limit the amount of dialogue included in my opening as possible. My intention for the limited dialogue is that it will open up the space for the audience to be more observant of the actions of the main character.  When there is an absence of dialogue, everything else is important because it becomes more noticeable.  My goal in the opening scene is for the audience to get invested in the main character and how he is just a normal kid until something unexpected happens. The lack of dialogue will allow the audience to notice the surroundings and how he is just living his life in a normal town. In the beginning of the movie, it is not stressful.  It should be easy to watch with beautiful scenery. Then something shifts when the main character finds the magic glasses.  The absence of dialogue