Student Handout
"Storyboard Organizer"
Your name__________________________
Sympathetic to Peter? Unsympathetic to Peter? (circle one)
Use the following to help you plan and create your storyboard:
A. Working with your group, briefly describe the parts of PeterŐs story you are going to film.
- Write your description out in six numbered steps.
- Without telling your point of view directly, you will show your point of view through film techniques. For example, if you want Peter to look powerless, you will probably film him from above. If you want him to look powerful, you will film him from below. (See the handout: "The Language of Film and Video.")
- One shot should be at the beginning of the film, two should come from the middle, and one should come from the end.
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B. With your group, look at your numbered steps and take any out that don't seem as if they help you tell the story. Add any that you feel are missing. You must end up with four numbered steps for your four shots.
C.Fill in the chart below. For each numbered step of your story, fill in a new shot.
Shot #1 Beginning
| Description: What's going on? | Shot type: close-up or wide? | Visual clues to help communicate your idea and point of view | Additional elements (music?) |
Shot #2 Middle
| Description: What's going on? | Shot type: close-up or wide? | Visual clues to help communicate your idea and point of view | Additional elements (music?) |
Shot #3 Middle
| Description: What's going on? | Shot type: close-up or wide? | Visual clues to help communicate your idea and point of view | Additional elements (music?) |
Shot #4 End
| Description: What's going on? | Shot type: close-up or wide? | Visual clues to help communicate your idea and point of view | Additional elements (music?) |