Storyboards

 What's up guys, so this week has been full of planning for the details of the opening.  For example, my partner and I  have already settled on a color pallet for the movie, the costumes, the set, and even the details of the set design. So many little things we are starting to plan to place around the set  

Our film opening will follow a middle-aged man who killed his beloved wife. The man truly loved his wife, so it was weird that he would do such a thing to his wife. Though the man is self-aware he caused this pain to himself, he still isn't able to fully wrap his head around what happened. The man even likes to remember her, in her best, with her pretty dress and perfect hair, how they danced all of their afternoons listening to old tunes from their record player. 

The movie opening will start just a few days after the man killed his wife, the house is starting to look dirty and unkempt, as the dirty plates on the kitchen table and dirt on the floor. Through this mess, the man is seen dancing with his imaginary wife in the living room. They look like a lovely couple, holding each other close. They are slow dancing to the song, moving in sync with the music. While they are dancing we will also show various things throughout the house that could reveal more about the couple, like some flowers and a family portrait. Though throughout this whole segment we plan on not showing the woman's face, so it adds more mystery to the film and also hints to the audience that she isn't there. 

After almost a minute of dancing, the man is going to get an unexpected phone call from his son. The son knew about what happened to his mom, but not actually. He knows she died and that his dad isn't okay with this event, but he doesn't know what caused the death of his mom. So, the son is calling to let the dad know that he is coming to visit soon, to be with him through these hard times. While the son is finishing talking to the dad, we are planning to slowly zoom into the basement door (which wouldn't be an actual basement given that they are no basements in Florida), to create further suspense. The basement door will represent where the wife was killed, though we wouldn't straight up to reveal that to the audience given that it's too easy. So we plan on the man to look at the door at the last few seconds of the opening and then we do an eyeliner match to introduce this idea. This is where the opening will end, and it will fade to black to show the title. 

There is still some small detail that will play a big role in overshadowing the plot, in the opening we are going to have to plan out, though I am very excited to do so. 

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