Storyboard Alterations

For our opening we had to make very few changes from our original storyboard to our final edit. However there were a few things that had to be altered in the process of filming and editing our opening which made our final edit different from our planned storyboard.

The first change made between our storyboard and final opening was in frames 3-6 of the storyboard. Originally we had planned to open with an extreme closeup of Rose's face which would zoom out to the correct framing for a match-on-action to the camera spinning around her in the park.  

However, when it came to filming this scene it was clear that the cameras zoom was not strong enough meaning we could not get both the extreme closeup and the required framing. Instead we opted to change the order of the shots (switching frames 5 and 6) zooming out as far as possible from the extreme closeup and then using the shot of the bridge to aid the transition to her in the park.

Referenced numbers working from left
to right and top to bottom.

The second change made was in frame 11. Originally we had planned to have a shot where a hand (suggested to be her dad's) comes into shot and grabs her face. We did film this shot but chose not to include it in any of our published edits deeming it to be too out of context making the opening seem very trailer like.

One change made during the filming stage of production was the location of frames 12, 13 and 14 on the storyboard. This scene was originally intended to be shot in a white kitchen, continuing the bleak colouring of the rest of our opening, but when we got to the location it was too small to get the framing we wanted so we had to change to a living room location with much warmer lighting. The room's furniture also meant that we had to do a shot-reverse-shot, as opposed to the intended circling shot, this did however mean we could include a match on action as Rose fell back into the bath in the next frame.

Our storyboard shows that in the bath in in frame 15 we had originally planned to have black water that Rose would submerge herself in going into a black title screen. Later we decided that this was an unnecessary addition to our opening potentially confusing for the audience and possibly causing harm to our lead actress.

We originally planned to go straight from the title screen to a closeup in frame 17 however while filming we decided to add in a couple of long shots beforehand. This leads the audience easily back into our montage whilst also acting as compensation for the lack of planned chairs (seen in frame 18) which couldn't be set out due to limited time whilst filming.

The final change from our storyboard to our final edit is in the openings closing scene, frame 24. Originally we planned to have the doctor, sitting by her side, repeat her name several times before she looks towards him, but this seemed to come to too much of a conclusion for the opening sequence of a film. We instead chose to change the dialogue having Rose remain unresponsive and the Doctor character walkout of shot as though talking to a nurse out of shot. We decided to change the editing of the shot as well, instead of zooming out from a closeup to a long shot  we decided to change between the two with cuts before cutting back to the closeup as a way of transitioning to the the rest of the film.