Picnic
Storyboard Description
By Michelle Ngwenya
Storyboard Text
- Extreme close up
- Rachel is standing in the middle of the woods, still
- Mid shot
- Dolly out to wide establishing shot
- Whilst looking into the distance. Her eyes are filled with tears and terror.
- Mid panning right shot
- Panning right/ left
- A person dressed in a bear costume prepares a picnic basket.
- Dolly backwards / wide shot
- Medium close up
- They fill the basket with utensils.
- Panning backwards
- Mid shot
- Another person in a bear costume
- Medium close up shot/ two shot
- Medium close up
- grabs a book that reads 'Human Picnic'
- Medium close up
- Human Picnic
- and takes it to the other person
- Medium close up
- Human Picnic
- who puts it into the basket
- Wide shot
- Alexis and Rachel are hiking with large backpacks on their backs.
- Medium close up
- Walking side by side.
- Dolly backward then pan towards left as characters go towards left of screen / wide shot
- See, its not so bad is it.
- Medium close up / two shot
- It's a lot better than staying in bed on your phone the whole day.
- Medium shot/ two shot
- Am I right?
- Medium close up/ shot reverse shot
- Being outside is always better than being indoors all day on a college break.
- Medium close up/ shot reverse shot
- Rachel rolls eyes.
- Medium shot/ two shot
- Continue walking
- Medium close up
- Well I just hope there aren't any creepy insects
- Wide shot
- or animals because I can't be dealing with that
- Medium shot
- Dont worry, I'll protect you
- Medium close up
- Besides, I've been protecting you ever since we lost mum and dad.
- Long shot to medium close up focus pull from Rachel to Alexis into medium close up
- And I'm not ever gonna stop. Alexis pauses to ruffles Rachel's head.
- Over the shoulder shot facing Rachel.
- Alexis walks on.
- Medium close up/ two shot
- Alexis walks out of frame. Rachel follows after.
- Shot Reverse shot/ over the shoulder
- Rachel hears a faded laugh
- Shot Reverse Shot/ Over the shoulder
- She stops.
- Panning back - Medium close up
- 'Did you hear that?'
- Medium close up
- Alexis stops and looks at Rachel. Rachel walks next to Alexis
- Medium close up
- Hear what?
- Wide shot
- It's probably an owl or something
- Medium close up
- Alexis walks on.
- Medium close up
- Alexis turns and walks forward. Rachel follows.
- Wide shot
- No.
- Medium shot
- It sounded more like a person.
- Two shot / Medium close up
- It sounded like a laugh.
- Medium close up
- Alexis looks back at Rachel. She laughs.
- Medium close up
- Post-Millenials these days watch too many horror films. (Rachel walks into the medium close up)
- Two shot / medium close up
- It’s probably good for you to get out and into real world.
- Medium shot
- When I was your age, it wasn’t so easy to even get access to as many horror films as you’ve seen.
- Medium close up
- I know you’ve probably watched over 18 films.
- Two shot/ medium close up shot
- I swear all of you are obsessed. When I was your age,
- Medium close up
- we didn’t even have these android or apple phones yet, to even download and watch movies anywhere.
- Two shot/ medium shot
- My first phone looked like a brick. The only color was black and green on the screen
- Medium close up
- Yeah but horror films were still around when you were around my age too.
- Pan to left - Medium close up
- Don’t act like you never watched films that weren’t for your age ‘cuz I know that you probably did.
- Medium close up/ two shot
- Yes but the point I am trying to make is that post-millenials like you are always so glued to your screens that you lose grip on reality.
- Medium close up
- Stuff you see on screen become stuff you start to fear in real life.
- Medium close up/ two shot
- Well, a lot of films are based off things that do or have happened.
- Medium shot
- Not all films are fictitious.
- Medium close up
- Yes, well anyway I was talking about the things that don’t actually happen in real life,
- Medium close up/ two shot
- like how you are hearing someone laugh when there's no one near us. It’s probably happening in your head.
- Wide shot
- I know what I heard.
- Medium close up/ two shot
- We'll probably need to get you checked out after this
- Medium close up/ Over the shoulder shot from Rachel
- Rachel rolls her eyes as they continue on walking.
- Medium close up / Over the shoulder shot from Alexis
- Rachel hears another laugh.
- Medium close up
- Oh, come on,
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- don’t tell me you didn’t hear that laugh?
- Alexis shakes her head.
- They both continue walking but Rachel is cautious
- looks around in every direction to try and see if she can find where this laugh is coming from.
- If you go down in the woods today,
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