Visual Outcome Reflection: Storyboarding Kind-of

I know it doesn't look like it, but these are my first attempts at real story boarding. Come on, I've never done this before, guys. I thought sectioning off my review an making lists within those sections would at least allow me to start with a clear outline. While I felt pretty clear on my main points within the original written drafts, this method helped me clarify even more. I'm not quite sure how it happened, but I started seeing how different sentences/phrases would work better in a different sequence for film than the order I would have thought to write them in.

In this second attempt at story boarding/outlining, I started color-coding my points. Main points were outlined in green, while supporting points might appear in blue. Outlining in color helped me to trim the fat of previous outlines. And seeing my main points so vividly made it easier for me to begin thinking about how to represent them visually.

For example, below is a poster I made to try to figure out how the 'filter' I kept referring to might look in a film. Mapping out how words and phrases might look made it easier for me to think about more options for visualizing the review. At first I was nervous about not having enough original footage to make my point. I realized that you really didn't need much original footage, especially since the goal of this kind of reviews is to address other issues.

So, in this case, I wanted to use some dancing footage of Romeo & Juliet. In this case, it really didn't matter if it was from the performance or not. Romeo & Juliet is an old ballet, and it's done the same way almost every time. Well, every time. I wanted to see how I could just manipulate the footage to say what happened within the O2. I was experimenting with the idea of rose-colored lenses to convey that you didn't really see what was there. What if you started out with dancing, and then a pink, transparent was placed over the dancing?

As I got into more storyboarding (which you'll see later), I realized that just rose-colored lensing wasn't enough. I had to think about how I'd want to magnify the dancing and zoom out of the dancing to convey what I saw and didn't see as an audience member. And THEN, I wanted to also use posterizing effects on the visuals and auto-tune effects on the audio to make it fully overproduced.