I am in charge of scouting locations, planning our filming agenda and transferring our written ideas into a visual storyboard. Ah! Pressure! Anyway, we looked at existing storyboards to determine the conventions to help us grasp the purpose and the quality our storyboard should be.
Here is our initial plan:
We decided as a group to begin the trailer with a black and white close-up clip of a middle-aged man smoking, looking directly at the camera. During the editing process we will include a voice over of a man saying some things in Japanese.
The voice-over will switch from the man to the female lead, talking about her family who happen to be yakuza (Japanese gangsters). The following scene is a flashback of the main characters and their father teaching his son how to fight; a young girl attempts to join in but is shunned by the father and son. Naturally this scene will be a longshot, we decided to shoot this scene outside because the ambient light will provide a calmer atmosphere.
It will then cut to a bar scene where the present-day female lead is conversing with her best friend about the mistreatment she has had all her life to which her friend suggests she should prove her worth to the family.
This is also a flashback scene. As the icon for our film is a bonsai tree we will have an upward tilt of a bonsai tree being tended by the younger version of the female lead. This will portray her compassionate nature and will help to show the negative impact the rivalry between her and her brother has had on her growing up because by the end of our trailer she is a completely different person; more vengeful and aggressive.
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