Digital Film Production and VFX Week 1:My Idea and Storyboard

Storyboard

My idea is to involve the chess players scenario from the book, in a way in which the title sequence will have a chess board and chess peices that will move as a traditional chess game would be played out but my idea with the chess game being played is to embed the texts into chess pieces, have the texts being shown behind the pieces after they've moved, underneath the peices, on the chess board and more.

I will be doing 5 shots that will last 6 seconds each, 3 seconds for movement and 3 seconds for the title and the final shot are a compilation of extras that i will be able to use if i have time available. The Title sequence will begin with the movement of a chess piece to reveal the chess board and pieces and will have the camera move around the chess board to reveal titles and eventually finish with a check mate move to which the fallen piece rolls towards the screen.

I will be creating the chess pieces within Maya and animating them using the same software, the reason i have chosen to do so is because i had the option to use a local life size chess board but that would require filming and i believe that filming isn't my strong point however 3D modelling had stood out to me and i wanted to go back and try to model the objects for my title rather than plan to film my title sequence.




Each scene will consist of 6 seconds, 3 seconds of movement and 3 seconds of camera movement

Shot 1-The scene will begin with a black view as a low shot looking up, the scene will begin from there to the first piece moving to unveiling the chess game which will be half way through. The camera will stay in the same position whilst the piece moves and the first text is shown embedded within the piece.

Shot 2-This scene will begin with the camera movement switching or moving to mid shot as it turns right towards the next piece to show text down the side of the piece.

Shot 3-After the previous scene is finished the camera will again move from mid shot to low shot as it moves left towards one of the chess board squares, which will then have camera tilt down to a top view shot making another piece of text visible.

Shot 4-From the previous shot the camera will come back to on the chess board and then move or rotate the camera to the right. With the camera in place as a low shot focusing on the chess piece in front the viewers will see half of the text which will connect to the other piece coming across from the right side.

Shot 5-This shot will start off with the camera rotating to the left and move towards the final chess move, check mate, which will the horse cornoring the king and not allowing it to move anywhere thus making the king lose and bein knocked down and rolling towards the screen and causing it to fade out to black, through out this scene the shot will be a mid shot with the view of the horse visible.

 Extras-As you can guess are the extra ideas of shots that i am willing to involve with any time available, there are shots such as a mid side shot which would have each lettering of the text on the individual pieces, another is a top view looking down on the board and seeing the piece make its move and unveiling a text, one that is again a top view which shows the text on the rook piece along top of the piece and finally the far out shot looking over one side of the pieces to across the board which will have large lettering or text to make up a wordalong the front of the pieces.