A Blueprint for Our Story

    Following on my previous blog post I feel that I should give a little more information on how my opening will go. I'll be doing this giving in-depth analysis on the first couple of scenes in the opening. It's also worth mentioning that I used the storyboard template from my, "Bringing it to the Board" blog. 

PART 1:

   Starting of the film, it fades from black, straight into Asher's legs as he walks across a park. The shot then cuts to a medium shot of the back of Asher. The shot after then shows Austin who's the "bully" from his side, walking the opposite direction of Asher. Then it cuts to a close up of Asher's face as he sees Austin walking towards him, where the camera cuts to a side shot of Asher's face. Then a medium/long shot of Asher and Austin, shows the moment where Austin intentionally bumps into Asher, to get a hold of him.

    During this sequence there's not much going on, but it helps the audience identify that these two characters do not like each other and or even have a past. Also, something that isn't showcased is that in this scene, Asher has a paper and pencil while walking. Which is a subtle foreshadow of what happens later on. 

PART 2:

    The second part of the storyboard, focuses more on the dialogue and conclusion of these two individuals. Here there is a square with, "Dialogue" which is to give us a blueprint on the familiarity that this part is going to have to when they bump into each other. Then the second square shows their conversation has ended, leading to Austin walking away after demanding Asher for something. As Austin walks away, Asher is paralyzed and stands still turning around to face Austin's back. Here the camera cuts to Asher's hand showing the pencil from earlier, to identify and tell the audience that he is "armed." Then the camera cuts to a long shot of Asher running very fast towards Austin, with his pencil in hand. Then it cuts to over the should-ish shot of Asher about to kill Austin.

    In this scene the whole point is to show the switch the flicks off on Asher, as he gets ridiculed by Austin. The pencil was the subtle foreshadow I mentioned earlier and it works to demonstrate how sick Asher is, through killing someone with a pencil. Furthermore, the murder scene is very abrupt and portrays a sickened Asher. 

PART 3:

     Now, to transition into the resolution between Asher and Austin, we see a black screen right after the pencil makes contact with Austin's neck. During this black screen we hear a thump to signal that Austin has been killed. Then we cut back to Asher to his scary, dangerous eyes, which is used to transition through a match cut of Asher, days prior to the murder. 

    The reason, why this is where this scene ends is because as a collective group we are still pondering on what and how we can represent Asher's psychological problems caused my "Murphy's Law." Our plan is to have him in his room showing unusual things that represent his problems, and here is the main part that we are trying to solve. We are likely to solve this issue when we finalize our script next week and have our foundation completely set. But, yeah so far this is what our storyboard looks like and I'll keep updating any changes as we go on.