Key Frames and Potential Stills

After we created our mood boards, we started to create a list of everything that had to be in our sequence. This was sort of like a time line of what was going to happen. Once we had created this we started to work on creating an A3 sheet of paper with 9 key frames on, like the website artofthetitle do. These frames are supposed to give a basic idea of what happens in the sequence very quickly.


As you can see in the first frame, the sequence starts of with a guy digging a hole. The next shot is just the various production company logo's and usual jazz films have at the start. While these logos are playing you will hear a dog barking, and the image will very quickly cut back to the guy digging looking scared. Frame 4 shows a group of people running towards him with flaming torches and swords. This could potentially be hard as i don't know how i will keep the flaming torches alight for long enough. Shot 5 is of the man very quickly burying whatever he has and running off into the night. The screen fades to black and the words "X years later" (i haven't decided how many yet) come up in white lettering. Screen 7 shows a group of people you learn to be archaeologists digging holes when someone hits something hard. Screen 8 is a shot from under the soil, looking up at the people brushing dirt away from the thing. Shot 9 is back above ground watching them pull the thing out of the ground.

Next we did a few potential stills form our mood boards.


My first one is a close up of a pick axe digging a hole. I probably wont use a pick axe, but i didn't have a picture of a spade digging a hole and that was as close as i could get. It also shows the initial part of the guy digging. The second frame is of the people running towards him with swords, however it doesn't really look like they're running anywhere. The last frame is 3 more people digging a hole, to show the archaeologists digging later on and finding whatever was buried.