Storyboard vs Actual Film

 Before filming, it is ideal to plan out the shots you want to shoot and how you want them to look, usually through making a storyboard, which is defined as a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production. This is usually the cinematographer's job to do, as they are in charge of envisioning the camera angles and specific shots that are to be used in the film. The storyboard also contains some directions and dialogue to direct what the actors should be doing in these scenes. This then must be communicated with the director to make sure that it fits within the director's vision of the film and creates the best possible feel/meaning that the film is trying to achieve. The cinematographer in our group, Katelyn Wagner, made this storyboard to briefly overview the main scenes of the title sequence and show what they should look like and what will be happening. There should be a remade version of this storyboard made soon to better show the scenes in more detail, and a new post will be made discussing that when it comes up.

 As expected to happen, certain things were followed from this storyboard and other things were adjusted and/or changed when actually filming the scenes, as the way they actually looked on camera was rather not what we were thinking, or there were difficulties filming certain parts. I will be going over the individual shots shown in the storyboard vs the actual shots we used in the film and outlining rather why we kept it or why we changed it.

For the actual film itself, we decided to keep the establishing shot shown in the storyboard for the aesthetic effect, as it not only shows the location but already creates a creepy and unsettling feel as it is night time in a run down area. 

We also kept the shot 

looking down on Lionel 

sleeping because it initially establishes the centrality of his character from the start and shows him as alone, vulnerable and isolated.

We kept the shot of the ghostly girl standing behind Lionel because it is very creepy and fits the vision of the film well, it also shows she is constantly there in his mind and is always going to be there.

We decided to keep the shot of Lionel looking down on the sink but instead of it being from above his head we decided to make it a POV shot, to show from his perspective what the sink beholds. The phone was removed from this film overall due to time and resource restrictions but we plan on incorporating it in the final cut.

 We decided to not use the scenes with the bathtub in it as the bathtub at the shooting location was not as expected and did not suit well with our vision for the film. Not to mention if the water got on the floor it would leak to the bottom floor:/. However, in our final cut we fully intend on incorporating the bathtub as it was a huge part of our original vision and was a central part of our plans, however unfortunately for the rough cut the location didn't do us too well. However, during reshooting the issues can be fixed.

Sources 

https://www.vyond.com/resources/what-is-a-storyboard-and-why-do-you-need-one/

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/what-are-storyboards/