Storyboard Imitation

Storyboard:

The director followed the rule of thirds in the first cut scene. The scene shows a young adult sitting in the woods up against a tree, reading a book. The cut has the character off to the right side of the screen instead of directly head on to give the audience a feel of openness. To get this feel he used the technique called the rule of thirds. In cut 2, the director switched from using the rule of thirds to using the 30% rule. In the transition from cut 1 and 2, the director went from a wide screen shot to a close up of the character. This gave the audience a feeling of excitement because the expression on his face was that of excitement and joy at what he just heard. The director also used the rules of third in cut 3 of the scene. Starting out the scene, the camera pans up some to show another character enter on a wagon drawn by a horse, but we only see the back of him. This camera angle and technique gives the audience another sense of openness and as well as the curiosity of whom this man is and where he is going. This then leads us to the 4th cut in the scene which does not use any of the rules. This scene has the character we don’t know yet, dead center surrounded by trees and is still in the dark. The camera angle now shows us the front side of the wagon and man. The 5^th cut in this scene is a cut of the young man running downhill through the woods. This cut also did not use any of the rules. They had their camera on a dolly and followed from a side shot while the character was running. This gave the audience a since of rush/urgency, as if they were that character and also wonderment as to where he was heading so fast. In conclusion the director broke the 180 degree rule, but followed the rules of thirds and a little bit of the 30 rule.