I went with idea number 9 on my previous blog. Boy with a camera, taking loads of photographs and wishing he was with his friend. All us 4 wrote our own storyboards and decided to end up with mine.
We all took key words from the poem such as isolated, cold weighs hard, dark clouds begin to gather, quiet surroundings, open space, wavy grass, sheep wonder aimlessly. I took these words, placed them in the order of the poem and wrote a story.
"Isolated like the emotions I have held for many years.
The cold weighs hard on my bones.
As the dark clouds begin to gather,
Quiet surrounds the air.
The rural space echoes with stillness.
The picturesque image engraved in my mind.
Like a single tree embedded in a field,
The wavy grass hangs around to help ease the loneliness it feels.
The sheep wander aimlessly in this desolate sphere."
(Isolate time) Pictograme spinning thing (eduard Muybridge)
Spinning slowly and gets faster, like a rolling film, of pictures of a boy taking loads of pictures, and old pictures of him and his friend/s going out doing activities + having fun. Spins even faster and fades into the boys face waking up suddenly..
(cold weighs hard) eyes wide open as he lies on his back (camera angle birdseye view close up on face) and suddenly gets up and reaches for his camera. On the background of his room he has loads of pictures up on his wall of old memories and friends and where they used to play. (long wide camera)
Feels he has to go out and take more pictures (dark clowds begin)
(quiet surrounds) goes sets his tripod in the middle of a forest/woods and sets it to self timer, then he goes and plays with the scenery infront of the tripod, dances around etc. (rural place stillness) (long wide camera)
.. (picturesque image) ..
(single tree in field) sets up tripod faceing tree with wheel on it, sets it to self timer and plays on the tree. (long wide camera)
(wavey grass) the boy walking through fields hands reaching out to the long wavey grass (or look over and come up with something different/similar
(Ease the loneliness) reminiscing through camera pictures, (camera angle from behind/above his head)
(sheep wander aimlessly) playing football etc.
(desolate shere) camera breaks and a ghostly figure of his friend that died appears…
It's about a boy whose friend has died, but we don't know this. He feels isolated and lonely, and his camera has almost replaced his lost friend. It has loads of pictures of those two and he takes it everywhere he goes. He visits previous places where they've played together and had photos together. He eventually drops the camera, which breaks, and you get the sense his friend leaves the camera as it breaks. And only then you realise the story is a sad one about him wishing his friend was still around.
