Storyboards

These are the storyboards for our short film which is called Delusional. The short film begins with him waking up and getting ready for school. To show this to our audience, we use mid shots and close ups. After leaving the house, we show the audience that there is someone following him. She then catches up to Derek and taps him on the shoulder. We use a close up to show how significant the action is. The audience is now introduced to Ava Morgan, Derek's friend. The two then exchange dialogue. During this we use reverse shots and mid shots for each line they say. After this he walks off and walks towards the train station to get to school. However by the end of these storyboards we began to lose the plot therefore, when we started filming we finally established what we wanted to show our audience. Here is our final synopsis:

Derek Waters, an ordinary young adult, finds himself wandering through the streets of London. Lost and confused he follows a young boy who looks exactly like his younger brother, but is he real? 

After filming it all, we use a number of establishing shots, long shots, mid shots, close ups, OTS shots, tracking and point of view shots. We wanted to show our audience that Derek is hallucinating/ imagining his younger brother alive although he is dead. The dialogue between Derek and Ava tells the audience that Eric Waters (the younger brother) had recently died. Many people deal with mourning differently. We, the audience find Derek trying to grasp onto whats left of his younger brother but he doesn't realise that he'll be gone forever.