Rough Storyboard

This is a rough storyboard of the beginning scene to the opening of our film. The first shot is a long shot focussing on Pip as a child. This shot is used to represent his isolation and lonelyness as there are no others in the room.

The camera then cuts to a medium close up as Pip discovers a pencil. His face breaks into a grin and realism he has found his passion. The camera then zooms into an extreme close up on the pencil and when it zooms out Pip appears considerably older. This connotes that despite the passage of time Pip still draws and creates art for himself. Behind him are bits of paper scattered around the room connoting he has drawn a lot and discarded them, searching for the perfect picture.

The camera then zooms in on his face and through editing his face will appear to age considerably, he will grow a beard and his hair will become much longer connoting again the passage of time. The camera will then cut to a medium shot. His room will now be much more messy. Littered with papers stacked and strewn around the room. In the background we see a mattress that he will have been sleeping on. This connotes that he is maltreated by his parents/parent and is isolated from the outside world. The camera will then cut to an over the shoulder shot allowing the audience to see what he is drawing. The camera then zooms in on the drawing, showing creepy, disturbed images connoting his mental instability. The camera then pans across his wall, showing various drawings he has stuck up there. In amongst these drawings some will stand out with different titles painted onto them in strange handwriting such as the film name, production company and starring actors.

The camera then zooms out from the wall allowing to see the whole room. The character will be sat in the far corner, with nothing but paper scattered around the floor and a mattress with no sheet or pillows in the opposite corner. This will be an establishing long shot, used to show the character's extreme isolation.