Assignment 9: Storyboard

Storyboard 1: The Fire

Storyboard 2: The Shot

For this assignment the class was told to create two storyboard using three photos out of a series of photos from the photographer Will Yurman. Each storyboard was to contain four images that told a story, one story board which used one photo from Will Yurman, and another storyboard that linked two photos by Will Yurman. To fill in the other photos for the storyboard I decided to use Google Images instead of sketches so that the storyboard would look more cohesive and continuous. For the first storyboard I used the photo of the four people with smoke mask walking out of a hazy fog. When looking at this image, I was reminded of the forest fires in California a few summers ago and based my storyboard off of that. The story starts with lightning striking a forest, a fire starting, firefighters fighting the fire, and then finally the people leaving the smog created by the fire. In what we learned from class today about story board transitions from Scott McCloud, I choose the follow the action to action transition in that it allowed the story to flow over a longer period of time. The photos also all contain a similar point of view of looking at a fire on a hillside in the upper left corner of the frame which gives this storyboard a degree of moment to moment although the time between these moment is a bit longer than it should be. The following storyboard I decided to use the photos of the 4 little kids playing soccer and the man praying. While these two images seem rather unrelated I though of the suspense in soccer games like during the World Cup from this summer and how ordinary people get very into the game. The story for this was for one of the kids on the team to get a penalty, the team creates a wall to help block the shot, at this highly intense moment the man praying shows the anxiety, and then finally the shot being scored. Again for this storyboard I decided to use the action t action transition in that it helped break up all of the moments that happen with a penalty shot in a soccer game. Since all of these events are taking place at the same soccer field, the storyboard also contains some degree of aspect to aspect transition as the perspective changes around the soccer field.

Once again, I found this assignment to be fun and interesting. In following the advise given to the class, I simply tried focusing of the first thing that the photo made me think of and based the story around those ideas and I found that this made it easier to come up with a story. Probably the hardiest part of this assignment was finding images on Google Images that fit within the same context as the story such as finding pictures that had the same color scheme and similar context. I feel that this was best displayed within the fire story as each image is of similar perspective and all have a similar orange and red color pallet.