Horror StoryBoard

poker ads

i thought these adverts for poker were really cool.

We are making a short horror film which is to be 2 minutes long for a competition bieng held by the channel zone horror, one of my friends does SFX makeup at uni and these are some examples of the sort of work she does...

script

This is a version of our horros story after we have had our crit and some interesting input has been applied, we have decided to twist the story far more than we originally had. But the darker the better, also we have locations and actors almost finalised.

(Beggining with a ms)A young girl is sat on her computer, she is using an instant messenger to talk to a friend. (Cut to view through her eyes CU on computer screen) you see the last few messages of her conversation, it’s from a boy saying we’ve been talking for a while now are we gonna meet soon, you hear her voice in her head, “should i go? i’ve been talkin to him for a while i think i should” they arrange to meet at a bridge loacally to the pair. (cuts to shot through her eyes) she sees a male halfway across the bridge lookin at the river, (cut to LS, zoom to CU of male face, cut back to view through her eyes) “oh no this was a bad idea, he looks old enough to be my dad” She turns to walk away (trough eyes) when she sees a young man,(shot through his eyes) he says “hi it’s jake” (shot from her eyes) “thank god” . He suggests they go for a walk in the woods, she is more than happy to get away from the bridge. (LS) They start walking, they head through these woods filled with bluebells (through girls eyes LS) she turns and sees the old man walking behind them, (MS from side) she grabs the boys arm and walks briskly off deep into the woods, (through his eyes CU) he stops as does she they look deep into each others eyes (alternating CU) both close their eyes, as though they are going to kiss (screen goes blank) lots of banging and the male grunting, the girl stays quiet. (cut to a CU of a computer screen) hear a double click and a photo album opens up on screen..........................pictures of the boys mutilated body. (MS) Girl on instant messenger again.

adding and changing

i thought it would be a cool idea to add a visual thought bubble in the story insted of just text. as the hare reads in boarders a thought bubble come up and plays a skateboard clip. to add the video i have to cut it down in final cut. then save it as a quicktime movie. then import it to my libary, going though all the different stages of set up.



at first i added the text to the story at the top of the page. i thought this looked rubish so i designed some thought bubbles in illustrator. which i think made it look a lot cleaner and easier to follow.



this is what it looks like.

after animating my character. i went into the city to get the pictures for the race. i took about 170-200 images. i then had to resize all the images in photoshop using the resizing tool. which was a new technique i learnt that will come in very handy in the future.

the screen shots are of me working in flash. after i added all the images in order of the race i had to then start to make it interactive.

the part marked in red on the above image is the timeline with the frame numbers. the reason for making each image like 10 frames long is so the the interative story continues if the player doesnt click the button. the story always ends up as the tortoise winning. the part marked green is the action scripting for the buttons with make the hare run faster and also for the distractions in which you coome apon.

the part marked blue is my librey with all of the images, sound, movie clips, buttons, etc.

Animating the tortoise

i found out that you could animate my character in photoshot using image ready. its pretty simple you create different layers with the different movement you want then add it to the animation line at the bottom. you then can just import the layers to your flash librey and convert it to a movie clip.