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Been storyboarding like mad for the last month. Churning out an average of 30 panels a day. But the experience is amazing and I definitely learned and improved a lot along the way. My composition and storytelling skills have gotten a lot better. Feel very happy when I feel like I captured the right emotions in each scene. Storyboarding for a live film definitely gave me different challenges as opposed to boarding for an animated film. I've learned to work with physical limitations and changing my boards to accommodate logistical problems.

Biggest problem we've had is dealing with our main protagonist, a girl. Since this is a student film and  the girl and the family are just volunteers who've never done this before, we've encountered problems with the girl's (and family's) temperament and schedule. We had to rewrite the script and cut down the shots as much as possible. I've learned to be more economical in my shot choices and cut down so that we don't have to shoot the same scene several times as we only have one camera. It works for the most part but sometimes I feel like I could have brought more emotion and storytelling by having more shots but... it's a give and take situation, and I'm adapting along the way.

Here's one short scene.