This is our first storyboard. It still needs more development but its a animated storyboard that gives some information on how we will film our opening. The coloration of this storyboard adds to how we want the scientific element to be introduced, the setting going from black and white to colorful due to the hacker and his technology knowledge. Nick modeled this after our script, that Kevin had made. Kevin used a website called StudioBinder that helped form the script and helped him be able to add shots, locations, easier then trying to form a script by oneself. Nick also used StudioBinder to make the storyboard. Continuity is kind of our thing.

The Script

Summary: A hacker and a detective are sent into a simulation because it has been hacked by an outside party and the people who own it are not happy about it. 

Cut to a man (Detective played by Fares) filling a car with gas at a gas station. Chiaroscuro is used)

Inner Monologue from Detective: “Precision simulation hired me to investigate who hacked into their simulation and bring them to justice. Ever since the first attack, it has been glitching – time will move erratically, you will be in a place you don’t remember going to. On the bright side, after this job, I’ll quit: I may be young but I’ve put in too many hours to keep working this dead-end job. My partner for this job is a felon and a hacker and once we’re done with this job, Precision promised to wipe his slate clean. He seems like the kind of guy that is too ‘goody two shoes’ to even commit tax fraud, but I was shocked when I heard that he …” (Cut off by Hacker speaking)

Hacker (played by Kevin) walks into frame

H: “Can I put some color back in this world; all this black and white is making me depressed?”

D: “Sure, whatever.”

H: “And then I said, let there be color!”

Chiaroscuro gone in next cut; color present

H: “There, much better. Now, did you find any information on our culprit?”

D: “Well, we know that they’re good at altering this simulation, so they must be good with computers.”

H: “Way to go, Sherlock, I mean do we have a witness or, better yet, a name?”

D: “We do have a name: Bostrom. That’s all we have though: no face, no age, and no location.”

Cut to another establishing shot; D and H are in the same position, but at different gas station

D (as he is getting in the car): “They may be on to us, let’s get out of here.”

Title card appears with sound of the car door shutting.

This script gives most of the stage directions and cinematography elements that will be used when going into the introduction with lone detective then shifting from the detective to the hacker speaking to one another. The script shown above is a huge improvement from our first script, we really did not have a grasp fro the plot and the title of our film. Once we started looking at locations and decided on a title, the idea just sparked and our second script came along. Also, the cinematographer for this film will be me, since I am going to use my phone for this film opening.