Below is the storyboard that I have created for my opening sequence for this project. I have created 12 panels showing scenes that I intend to create. I wanted my piece to focus more on the characters themselves and establishing the world that they are adventuring in, rather than making something that was overwhelming with plot as the piece is only 60 seconds long. Most of the panels that I have drawn will be around 5 seconds long on average in the final opening sequence, some being longer and some being shorter but all roughly being 5 seconds.
My storyboard opens up with an establishing shot of the setting of the show, a fantasy kingdom. It starts out at night time and the sun slowly rises to reveal daytime and sets the happy and light tone for the opening. Once the sun as risen, the camera then zooms down into the forest within the image and the zoom changes to a shot of the forest. This is a wide angle shot encompassing the background and the main character, walking through said forest happily. The camera then changes to a mid shot of the main character from a front view still walking along the forest path. It then zooms in for a close up of the character who waves at the camera/ audience as an introduction.
The next panel in the storyboard depicts the camera zooming back out and showing a different location in the setting of the show within the kingdom. The foreground of the shot shows the main character and the 3 side characters together. The initial zoom out is from the main character to this shot to make a smooth transition of location. The 4 characters are then seen to happily wave at the camera again as the main character did to get across the friendly personalities that each of the characters have. This scene then slide transitions into the character introductions.
For the character introduction scenes I want to be able to show off a part of the character’s personalities to make them seem unique and likeable to the audience. I want each character here to have a different animation and the background of each half of the scene to relate to the character and use the particle system in After Effects to add some character elements to the background. Once the characters have been introduced and their names have been shown on screen the scene then transitions to the characters all walking together on the same path seen near the beginning of the sequence. This is meant to show them working together and how they are friends, as they are walking on the same road the main character was earlier seen alone on. The final panel of my storyboard shows the title of the show fading onto the top of this walking group scene as an ending, finally introducing the title of the show.
