'Aeroplane escape'

After creating our own storyboards in our groups we were asked to photograph a series of 6 still images that showed our newly created stories. We were also give the option to produce our own storyboard and shoot this if we preferred. I decided to create a new story that I knew I could capture well with photographs. The short story that I created is very simple and uses the 6 frame structure.

It begins with a girl throwing a paper aeroplane that she has made - she accidently throws it out of her bedroom. The next frame shows her trying to retrieve it. I decided to have the camera low down to get a full body of the girl and to create a suspense. The third frame shows the aeroplane has moved by itself a couple of steps down the stairs - the girl's head turns although her body remains in the same position as the frame before to give the illusion that these to frames happened quickly. I decided to change the camera view of a wide shot up the stairs - to enhance the speed but also to build an idea of the location and make it clear that the paper plane has moved all by itself.  The fourth frame is my favourite out of the 6 because of the composition and angle of the camera. The shot shows a close up of the aeroplane and in the background the girl's feet at the bottom of the stairs. I decided to photograph the scene from the plane looking up at the feet - I feel that this shot has a lot of suspense and shows the journey that the girl is taking to catch the paper aeroplane. The fifth is a climax of the end of the story - here the girl has decided to overcome the speed of the paper plane by taking a shortcut over the sofa and hopefully pounce onto it before it has time to escape. The last still is the resolution, the girl was able to catch the plane by jumping onto the sofa and catching it on the floor.