Storyboard

This is our final storyboard. We had a few discussions and changed our actual script again. I am sure we will improvise while filming as well because it is hard to say what works best before the actual filming, especially when you are not that experienced. We changed our film genre, too. It isn't a teenage romance comedy any more, it is rather just a teenage romance. So that is our final idea.

During the whole film we are planning to put small sequences in between the actual story line. These sequences are going to show myself putting my make- up on, so it seems this is what is happening right now and the rest of the story has already happened and is just retold. The shot is going to be an over the shoulder shot, we are planning to film into the mirror so you only can see a small part of the face.

After the first sequence showing me putting the make-up on (1) we have the scene where we introduce our two main actors and our main prop, the diary (2). It is kind of a stereotypical situation: Two people bumping into each other. The girl drops her diary and the boy picks it up. She is in a hurry so she runs off and he is trying to follow her to give the diary back to her but she is already gone. The main shot we are planning to use is a mid-shot.

After another scene of the make up (3), we see the boy in the library, trying to translate the diary (4). He is surrounded by books to make it look like he is really determined to do this. Here as well we will use a mid-shot and we will try to construct a match on action.

This is followed by another make up scene (5) and than the boy is shown again, he is  leaving the school (6). We are planning to use a aerial shot to show that he is lost and lonely.

We will end up the story with me kissing the mirror (7). We hope to create with that a hang on, to make people want to watch more.

We are going to put music over the whole film. It is going to be a German song because it is the story of the German girl. Near by the end we will put a voice over in the film as well. The girl is going to talk, going to explain what is going on. 

Characters, Cast and Title

In our two minutes film opening we only have two main actors.

The German Girl

She is a foreign exchange student from Germany and stays in England for a year. She regularly writes in her diary and takes it everywhere with her. Unfortunately she is going to loose it. The girl is called Frida.

I am going to play her role.

The Boy

He lives in England and he is the one finding the girls' diary. When both meet the first time he doesn't see a lot of Frida but he likes what he has seen so far. He is determined to find out who that girl is and the best whey seems to translate the diary to find out more about her. The only problem is the whole book is written in German and he has no clue what it says. The boy is called Leon.

We asked a friend to play that role.

To find a title for our film was quite a hard decision. At the end we came up with "Lost and Found". It reveres to the story. The girl is loosing her diary and she finds something new.

Our script- The Diary

The scipt is different from our first ideas that we had. This is because we had a few more discussions about the whole thing. Now this is how we plan to create our film.

Scene 1

Beginning: girl getting ready. Separated shots of eyes, mouth, taking the jacket, the bag, leaving the house, going to the bus, taking the bus; the face is never shown, only small parts

Scene 2

He is getting off, she is getting on, she drops the diary he picks it up and the doors close, he sees just the back of the girl before the bus leaves and she is gone

He flicks through the diary, puts the diary in his bag, meets a friend

Friend:

How are you doing?Boy:

Fine, let’s go.

Scene 3

Girl sitting in the common room, before the lesson starts, talking to a friend on the phone in German- English subtitles. A boy is sitting on the other side of the room, looking at her.

Girl:

Hey sweetie! You can’t believe what I go through at the moment! I’m in the common room at the moment, waiting for the school bell to ring to start the lesson. I really hate boys, but they all seem to think that they fancy me! It’s unbelievable! You know, there is especially this one guy, on the opposite side of the room. He stares at me all the time!

(German: Hey suesse! Du glaubst nicht was ich gerade durchmache! Ich bin im Moment im Gemeinschaftsraum und warte auf die schulklingel das der Unterricht anfaengt. Ich hasse Jungs aber die scheinen alle zu glauben ich wuerde auf die stehen! Das ist unglaublich! Da ist vor allem dieser eine typ weist du, auf der anderen Seite vom Raum. Der starrt mich die ganze Zeit an!)

Girl looks at this boy, he gives her a wink

Girl:

Eww! He just winked at me! Why are boys always like that? I’m so glad girls are different! ...All right princess, I have to go now. I miss you already! …Love you, too! Bye..byebye (air-kisses)

(German: Ihh! Er hat mir gerade zugezwinkert! Warum sind Jung simmer so? Ich bin so froh wir Maedels sind da nicht so. Ok Prinzesschen, ich muss jetzt gehen. Ich vermisse dich jetzt schon! .. Ich liebe dich auch! Tschau, tschau tschau!)

Boy sees it and reacts but she ignores him.

Scene 3

You see the boy in lessons (the clock keeps ticking really fast)

School bell is ringing, kids leave school, everything recorded in fast motion with a fixed camera angle of a corridor.

Scene 4

Next scene we see the boy sitting in the empty library, surrounded by books, a German-English dictionary, the diary. During that scene play with words to have the comedy effect.

First the girls voice in the background reading out the diary extract.

Diary:

“In zwei Tagen geht mein grosses Abenteuer los. Ich habe ziemliche Angst davor, ich glaube mein Englisch ist unter aller Sau.”

The boy tries to translate it. We see him sitting there, writing down, looking in the dictionaries. He reads out and writes his translation.

Translation:

“In two days starts my big adventure. I am really scared, I think my English is under all pig.”

Camera on his face..  enquiring, confused face.

Boy:

That doesn’t make sense at all!!!

He crosses out his written sentence. He tears his hair. Looks straight in the camera, despaired view.

Boy:

I just can’t do it! But I need to! I want to know who she is! I need to!

Voice from the background:

“I am really sorry, but I have to close now. You can come back tomorrow if you want to.”

Scene 5

He is leaving the school (same camera angle as the fast motion), holding the diary in his hands.

Gets a phone call, we just see him taking the call.

Maybe split screen.

Friend:

“Hey mate, how are you doing? We are having a welcome party for our new foreign students this year. Would you like to come?”

Boy:

“What country do they come from?”

Friend:

“Germany, why? Are you coming or not?”

Boy:

“Alright mate, see you later.”

Boy is really happy- struggles, falls and drops the diary. Camera on the diary- opening credits coming up