REFLECTIONS: Pre Pitch Storyboards
In order to illustrate how a possible dream from an interview could be put on screen, i've chosen to do a small example.
After searching the web, i've found the following description of a dream:
"Hi, my name is Afreen. I keep having these dreams about being chased. Each night it is a different dream but it has the same general principles.
I'm being chased by someone or by a group of people. And I'm always running towards my boyfriend. In my dream I feel like he is the only one that can protect me from the chasers. However, I can never reach him in my dream.
Sometimes I'm running away from a jail, sometimes my father (who by the way doesn't even look like my real father), and another time I was running away from one of my friends...
Signed,
Afreen A."
An interesting part of this description is "running away from jail". By looking at the symbols and their possible interpretations we may be able to think that the girl feels trapped when she is away from her boyfriend (therefore she is running away from jail). When she is away from her boyfriend, she could possibly be at home, feeling trapped there.
Now a possible link has been established between the confined nature of jail and home. After we have found a possible link to create our story, we may spend some time creating a narrative out of this situation.
The way i want to compare the two worlds, the dream and reality, is to show similar shots of the two situations in order to show that there is a link between the two. I've created a series of storyboards in order to illustrate this:
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| There is a teenage girl running away from something. |
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| She is running away from a dark figure behind prison cells |
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| We are also getting further away from the prison cells |
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| The girl is still running away in tears |
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| We see though that she is really running away from her father... |
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| ...and running away from her real "jail", her home. |
Hopefully during the final film we will explain how dreams are linked with our reality, and are often metaphors for the problems that we have in real life.
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