Who Needs an Outline?

According to my schedule, we were supposed to finish the outline today and begin the story board. That didn't really happen. We still weren't exactly sure what we wanted to do with our film opening. We had one scene down, so we decided to just start the storyboard for that and see where it takes us. We made some decent progress, and the entire first scene is basically complete. There's a few more things we have to add on to the end, and some changes will probably be made.

First page of our storyboard.

This isn't the greatest picture, but I tried my best. The purpose of this scene is to establish the essentials of one of our main characters. She's obsessed with social media, she's popular, and she's incredibly vain. The character, I think we called her Tiffany, is going to be using multiple social media accounts at once, constantly refreshing them. We want to really emphasize how much Tiffany uses social media by how calm she looks managing multiple social media accounts at once. We talked about having some sort of analytics page open on one of the screens to show how much she cares about followers, likes, and things like that.

We also decided on including narration from Tiffany. We think it would give more insight into her as a person. Listening to her thoughts is a pretty good way to figure out what she's all about. It also allows us to give the background for why Tiffany decides to kill her "friend". Tiffany's the murderer by the way. We plan on revealing that at the very end of the opening without actually showing her. There's a bracelet in the story board, that same bracelet is going to be shown as the victim is killed. It makes the audience draw their own conclusions, as obvious as they are, which should get them more invested in the film. Back to the narration. We want the narration to comment on the short comings of vanity and social media's influence on it. We don't have much of it written, but this line gives a decent idea of what we're going for: "Will. He's got 1,000 followers for each ab on his six pack." This is where the satire we were going for comes into play. Tiffany is going to talk about things teens stereotypically talk about, and it's going to be very exaggerated.

We also plan on included the credits via social media posts and notifications. We think that meshes well with our film, so we managed to all agree on it.