CREATING
THE STORYBOARD
CHOOSING ACTORS
PROPS
AND
Now we went to decide on how to organises and structure our Swede, therefore we decided to start creating our storyboard. We had previously decided to do three scenes, but now we had to decide on how we were go transfer the original movie to our school's facilities.In addition, we started deciding on the angles and some ideas for the dialogue. We structured it into panels i which we put a thumbnail of what the scene would look like plus, depending if we deemed necessary, some annotations that would be important to the filming of the scene.
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Georgie in the sewer Storyboard idea
Here we gave our basic ideas for the storyboards, we decided for location to use the street that is near our school and that would be quite good for the creation of this scene as it looked the actual street from the movie. In addition, we decided to tackle the problem of the water on the street by using white pieces of paper with water lines drawn on them. We decided on this idea as I had seen seen it in one of the Swede we investigated and it looked quite nice and funny. Moreover, we decided to use a dark room to create the scene of Pennywise in the sewer , this being as we could not actually get a person in the sewer. We also came up with the idea of using the method of stop motion to create the sequence of the boat moving until it fall onto the sewer. Lastly to create the scene where Georgie dies we decided to use a POV angle, that way we could easily drop the camera ( as though Georgie had thrown it) and then in post production add a scream sound effect.
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Choosing between the doors storyboard
This scene in itself did not need much thinking this being due to the fact that in nature it was quite simple to make. Therefore, we basically came up with the idea of using our schools doors to simulate the doors in the original movie. In addition, we also decided that for the "Not Scary, Scary and Very Scary" that can be read on the original scene, we would use normal posters with normal print. However, on of the problems is that we could not really think of anything to put on the doors to replace the scary objects, we were thinking about maybe putting the legs of a doll but decided against as we could not really make it work.
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Pennywise in the Fridge Storyboard
Lastly we came up with the storyboard for the scene of Pennywise coming out of the fridge, however when we were filming it we inverted the order with the scene of the doors. For this scene we decided to use the staff room, this being due to the fact that it we knew it had a fridge we could use and it also had knifes. We decided to replace the spear that beverly uses with a knife, this being due to the fact that it would require another character to hold it and we did not have that amount of actors. We took inspiration from other Swede and for the blood decided to either use ketchup of fake blood. For this scene however, we still did not have the angles very decided this being due to the fact that we did not accurately know if we could fit our Pennywise in the fridge, therefore if not we would have to improvise .
Coming up with the Actors
After having decided how to structure the Swede, we had to
think about what characters and actor we would be needing for
the filming of the scenes. We at the end decided to just use ourselves as actors for the Swede, this being due to the fact that we wanted to film during schools days therefore it would be impossible to get people from their classes to film. In addition, it would mean we would have to, in the case we decided to film outside, plan and organise all the carrying of the equipment and decide on a location. This were some of the reasons as to why we decided to use ourselves as the actors.
We then came to the conclusion we could cut the amount of characters to just Pennywise , Richie, Georgie and Billie. We also took into account the fact that we would at least need one person to film therefore we would have to work around having a maximum of two people appear in each shot. So in the end we decided to have Sophie and Isabella act as Pennywise, this due to the fact that they both wanted to be this character. Moreover, we decided to put Sophie as Pennywise in the fridge scene as she was smaller and could easier fit into the fridge. We then decided to have Mara be Richie and Eddie as she was less experienced in the use of the camera. Isabella and Sophie were the main camerawomen as they had more experience with he media ,as they had previously done IGCSE Media.
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