Mobster from Dimension X...

For the second part of the storyboarding project, it was time for us to put a little of our own creativity and imagination into the look of the shots. Given a page of script from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode, 'Mobster from Dimension X'...

... we were given the freedom to present the script in with any shots, camera moves and angles that felt neccesary for the script and story. The page which I was assigned had quite a simple yet interesting and exciting piece of action in it- featuring 5 characters- focusing mostly on the Glob father himself and 1 of the 4 surrounding gangsters. These being the only characters in my scene kept it quite straight forward in that sense as to who the scene and shots would be based on and would feature. The main bulk of the script focused around the Globfather's anger towards his gangsters, leading to one of them being morphed and melted into a puddle of slime by the Globfather...

This piece of action, although as simple as the gangster being touched and being turned into a puddle of slime by living goo from the Globfather, allowed me to play around with multiple camera shots and angles, experimenting with the relationship between the goo and the gangster and how the two come together. I really enjoyed exaggerating the life of the goo and how at times it looks, and even seems to tease the gangster before completely embrasing and taking over him. It was interesting to attempt to time out how long and how many shots it should take the goo to completely engulf the gangster, which was helped by intervining the action with reaction shots from the other 3 gangsters and the Globfather himself. But once started, it seemed quite a natural process of building up the action and the coverage of the gangster, helping pace the actiuon further with camera movement, pans and zooms, which would all keep the audience interested and in the action.

The rest of the scene was then concentrated on the Globfather telling the remaining gangsters about what he wants them to do and what he is willing to give them when they do it...

Overall, I really enjoyed the process and experimenting with different angles and shots that could tell the story in the best way. I felt that keeping the story and action flowing was interesting to me, and to see the plot come together and unfold the way I imagined it to was exciting. The attention to detail with the write up of the action, camera movements and timing, aswell as all of the action and camera movement arrows, was also great to get stuck into, getting in depth into how the character's emotions, actions and status's within the story could be best displayed and in the most dynamic ways for the audience to understand and keep interest. So after this project, I feel like this could be an area in which I would like to go into in the future, as It would allow me to possibly create the stories and scripts, and then also show how I would like it to come across on screen for an audience.