My group got together on Saturday to work out our storyboard all at once, we discussed the story and how we wanted to portray it, and we each sat down and drew how we imagined it to look. We took time and looked at each other's work to and gave everyone a chance to pitch their ideas. We then took bits and pieces of everyone's storyboards, particularly the ones we thought were most cinematically and compositionally effective, and stitched them together. These are some of my storyboards that didn't make it.
here we have the monkey king look around a pillar to find nothing but a void(we conceptualized the void to be twinkling with stars) which he assumes to be the end of the universe.
cutting to a med. shot of the monkey king very unimpressed by this
he begins to laugh, surely he's out of Buddha's hand now
I thought to cut to a full shot at a high angle of him laughing, I wanted to emphasize that he was alone here, he feels triumphant but it doesn't matter because 1. no one is here to see it, and 2. he hasn't really won the bet. Though we did agree it was a good shot, it ultimately did not make the cut.
While we discussed the story, we talked about him hanging himself from one of the pillars in triumph/wonder, so I had a shot of him laughing and shouting and climbing a pillar and hanging there pounding his chest. I wanted it to transition from the previous shot so I had the camera viewing the universe from the void so I stuck a sunset in there because as Buddha is the universe it should reflect his greatness, also because I think sunsets are pretty. As this shot ends he jumps down.
cuts on action to him landing
then he stands and looks up at the pillar.
These are some of the pictures I took while we were working together.
we put up ideas on the whiteboard as we were discussing the story and the visuals we wanted
This turned out to be the full storyboard after we put everyone's work together (the one you can actually read is probably going to be on Obsidian's blog)
we sat on the floor while we were debating which frames to keep in the final result.
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