Initial Brainstorming/ Story Boarding

 


           We (mainly me and Kristian) were first trying to decide what kind of genre we would be doing. At first we wanted to do a comedy skit, like Saturday Night Live. We then settled for a drama. Kristian immediately got to work, making a skit like a machine. He sent his result to John and I. We were a bit judgmental at first, but we accepted it. One problem John had was the lines for the voiceover, as he said it did not make much sense. So far though, there are no changes to the lines. We were all good with our roles, except I did not think that John could be a good voiceover. The original script had a prop gun, but we heard that it wasn't allowed so we had the change it to a drone shot of the car. Thankfully, I realized that my dad has a drone that I'm sure he will let me borrow. Elizabeth joined the group late, so we took that opportunity to take John's role of voiceover and give it to her. Then we settled with the final result, so far.

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