Initial Storyboard Ideas and Storyboard

EXPLAINED IN SCENES:

1. The way i like to work initially when making a story board is to make a really basic messy one that only really i can understand, it makes i can jot my ideas down quickly, and let them get swept up in a whirl wind. I have an idea for my film to start off as a book on a old fashioned desk, with old fashioned utensils and various bits and bobs on it. I will animate the book opening and then the screen will zoom in onto the first page of the book.
2. Once the screen has zoomed in onto the book page, "Georgia O'Keeffe" will appear with a image of her and O'Keeffe's date of birth and date of death. I think one at a time the items will fade out. I think i will do this by changing the Opacity of the writing and image from 100% down to 0%.
3. The page that i explained above will fade out and leave a similar colour solid background on scene three. On this scene i have decided to make a abstract New Mexican flag. I will have to Photoshop an actual flag so i can get the actual design of the flag from it. I think i will make the flag symbol (red) so small you cannot actually see it, and ill make it zoom in on to the onto the screen where it will turn from red to black. The back circle of the Mexican flag symbol will line up with the next scene. The writing i will include will be something like "New Mexico had a strong influence on Georgia O'Keeffe's work."
4. The next scene will be a close up camera - the circle of the lens on the camera will line up with the back circle of the New Mexican flag. The camera will cover the whole scene. The flash on the camera will flash - i will key frame a bright rectangle in top of the flash to make it look as if the camera is flashing at the audience.
5. I want to mention Stieglitz in the film quickly, in the design i mentioned that i wan something romantic, so i think i will use flowers.. i think probably falling flowers thats curve and sway in a light wind. I will have a white background, nice and clean looking and i will probably make the flowers 3D to make it look good. I have actually been looking online and found some helpful tutorials to assist me when tackling the moving flowers. I will have a low opacity image of Stieglitz appear and dissolve again on screen and have writing like "O'Keeffe married an American Photographer, Alfred Stieglitz." Then everything will dissolve and i will be left with a black white screen.
6. The 3D flowers will link up with this scene - i will introduce some of O'Keeffe's floral painting work. The plan is to insert a Jpeg and have some basic written information around like like "O'Keeffe loved bright colourful flowers, which is what she is widely known for."
7. I will then have almost a mini mood board of O'Keeffe's floral paintings and put them in a order where i think it is appropriate. I am thinking i will make some of the paintings one by one enlarge so the audience can get a better look at the detail of the images. The images will then retract to their original size and the next image will do the same.
8. From listening to a film where O'Keeffe was being interviewed she said that "When flowers were scares i would look for bones and skulls, id paint them." So i will make the screen go black and make a 3D skull which i will animate on screen. It would be different process and technique to the book and the flower though. I'm not too sure whether i would actually be able to make it in time, so i could just be a Jpeg of a image i make. People associate skulls and bones with death, so the blackness around the skull with represent the norm. However in a film clip O'Keeffe says "The bones do not symbolise death to me. They are lively, they please me. And i enjoy them very much in relation to the sky." Therefore, i will turn the black screen with the skull on it into a bright white screen. It should transform the way that people look at the skull just by changing the background colour.
9. To link on from the skull i will then have three images of some skull paintings O'Keeffe made. These will appear back to back, they will fade in and out to have a smooth movement and will have white space to the sides of each image. I will probably use the quote i mentioned above onto these three slides - i will split the quite into three parts. "The bones do not symbolise death to me," - "They are very lively, they please me" - "and i enjoy them very much in relation to the sky"
10. 'SKY..." This will then link onto her landscape work. I will maybe make a 3D landscape from one of her painting she made which will be zoomed in looking at the sky. It will zoom out and reveal the 3D landscape below. Once zoomed out to so the 3D painting fits the screen i will lower the opacity to 0% and have a solid white background behind.
11. This scene will start off with a white background, like the skull paintings i will have three images of O'Keeffe's landscape paintings which will do the same as the skull paintings, they will fade in and out and the next image will follow. "When i got to New Mexico that was mine. As soon as i saw it, that was my Country."
12. The page will turn, and the original paper which i used for the opening book will be the background and i will insert a pre composition of O'Keeffe talking about her work with her voice over. The clip i have is 1 minute 30 seconds long, but i really want to include it, its really fun and sweet.
13. I will fade the film clip out when it has finished and on the same page i will write something like "One of the most important American artists of the Twenty-first Century. Georgia O'Keeffe." I will probably have a image of O'Keeffe, by making it look like it is seeping into the paper. I will probably use the one of O'Keeffe where she is older - i have is on my mood board.
14. The page will zoom out and the audience will see that they were basically reading a digital book the whole time. It will end on the original starting design with the red book on top of the old fashioned desk.
15. I will then make the layer flick up like it is from a book, - i think there is a page turn affect in after effects with i could use. I will use the same page design that i used for the other book.. i will have some hand written type saying something like "And there is so much more, Georgia O'Keeffe, a true inspiration."
16. I will then let the page fall down and have other pieces of paper fold down on top to make it look like a thick book or booklet of work, and i think i will use a scanned image of my student planner and write my name on that. - I will let the book zoom out and let it fall onto a photography of my desk.

THATS THE PLAN.....