Home assignment 3: Visual Story with 10 photographs

Home Assignment 3: Visual Story with 10 photographs

For this assignment, I really had a tough time creating an inspirational storyboard. It wasn't as easy as it seems to tell a story within 10 frames! I guessed that most students would probably use human actions to bring out their storyline. I wanted to do something different. Hence I decided to rely on the use of toy keychains to do the narration of my storyline. I named the toys as well because I believed a story should have characters for audiences to identify with. Everything seemed perfect, but I had not foreseen 2 possible problems: Firstly, since my casts were toys, they are incapable of creating expressions! Secondly, they were too small and it was really very difficult to position them desirably. Several times I had to sprawl on the ground in order to capture them at the right angles. However, though the process of the photo shots were tiring and at even some times frustrating, it was still a memorable experience: It was one of those times that I had to ignore several curious stares of passerbys and get on my fours to get my best pictures.

Below is my storyboard sketch:

Here's how it story goes:

It begins with a beautiful sunny morning.

Mushroom girl heads for school, carrying her oversized yellow lock-bag.

A suspicious character is following behind Mushroom girl

Mushroom girl sensed that she's being stalked by someone as she sees a blur figure at the corner of her eye.

The suspicious hand reaches out for Mushroom girl

Mushroom girl jumps around to shock the suspicious Butterfly man

Mushroom girl sents the suspicious Butterfly man a deadly flying kick

Butterfly man falls to ground and a key falls out

Mushroom girl recognizes the key and picks it up: The key belongs to her!


Mushroom girl realizes it is a misunderstanding and apologizes to Butterfly man.

Some classmates have pointed out that the first photograph does not seem to fit with the rest of the 9 frames. This is because, it gives an impression of a very formal beginning, while the rest of the photographs follows more of an informal and cute storyline. This breaks the flow in the story. Also, some felt that the 7th photograph does not clearly show the flying kick action. They suggested using photoshop to add lines of impact or to show the point of contact.

So here is the edited version of picture 7:

I added a twirl effect to show the impact of the flying kick. Hopefully this brings out the essence better.