What We Did
Each group is required to present 2 storyboards for the video we are assigned to do later on. The storyboards were not only to show the plot of the video but also the camera angles of each scene and it provides an overall composition of the final video.
Our video basically could be summarized into this:
"On August 13th, 2018, the disappearance of a family in lakeside town left the investigators in disarray. The family consists of eldest child - Rachel, two younger sisters - Katie and Natalie and their parents.
The investigation was held in the house of the missing family in order to find some lead to the disappearance of the family. While the investigation was going on in the house, interviews were also being done with the neighbor.
Back inside the house, there’s a writing on the wall inside a room that seems to belong to the younger sisters. (camera shows the whole room before showing on the wall, one of the walls beside their desks was filled with yellow post it notes) It reads big, bright red letters, “don’t bully or you’ll get killed”. There is currently no evidence to who might be the one who wrote it. It might the younger sisters who wrote it addressing to Rachel. Or it was Rachel’s warning sign to her younger sisters… Across the younger sisters’ room, the investigators uncovered a trail of a red substance dripped on the floor, It gradually changes from red to orange and ends in yellow. This was leading from the writing on the wall, to a room next door.
There was a family photo on the wall- this must be the parents’ room. But why was the trail led to here from the younger sisters’ room? There was a phone that was left on a table in the room. Assuming it was one of the parent’s phones, it was kept as evidence (shows home screen of phone having sunflower), but later on, the investigators did not find anything suspicious on the phone. There was still no evidence in either of the rooms as to why the family disappeared… All that was left now was the eldest daughter’s room.
Rachel’s room seemed normal, with a messy desk (camera scans through room slowly then shows the desk featuring the fake sunflowers in a red vase/glass turned towards the window). The investigators found multiple post it notes (yellow) under her pillow with a neatly folded blanket on top. The exact message on the wall of Katie and Natalie’s room (shows scene of the wall with message) was written on the post it notes (shows post it notes with the same message written in red on yellow post it notes). Why would she have those under her pillow? Was she the one who really wrote the message on the wall? Were the sisters the ones who put them there? Does that mean that Rachel was the victim? Or was she the bully?
Did Katie and Natalie run away after murdering their family? Or are the roles switched and Rachel ran away after murdering her family? What about the parents? What significant role did they play in them and their children’s disappearance? Are they the actual murderers?
This still remains unsolved." This whole passage is by Wen Yi.
Storyboards
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This Teresa's and my take on the storyboard. We did it in a narrative form and highlighted the sunflower for unknown reasons ;)
And this is Rebecca's and Wen Yi's take on the storyboard. They did it in a documentary format which pays tribute to the popular YouTube mystery series Buzzfeed Unsolved.
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Final Thoughts
Honestly I really enjoyed trying to do a storyboard for the first time. I really liked exploring the different camera angles that depicts a certain mood of a scene and it was really self-achieving. The only downside is that storyboards have to have a script written and finalized beforehand, so that is the boring and tedious part. However, I'm glad that I enjoy writing as well. Perhaps not as much as drawing, but it's somewhere on the spectrum of my interests. And like every good thing, no pain no gain. Storyboards are definitely something that I would happily return to do again.
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