Back to the Future storyboarding

One of our class activities was to storyboard the movie, "Back to the Future" ourselves, remaking it on a sheet of paper with boxes on it symbolising the different types of shots that the movie had contained. Our group decided that the boxes were far too limiting when it came to directing the scenes and it gave us trouble as we couldn't find a way to fully explain how the scenes were portrayed. With this in mind, we completely went out of the boxes, with arrows, annotations and titles filling the sheet. Indicating camera movement was much more easier and more understandable as it was not shrunk down into the tiny boxes. As a member of our group pointed out, we would not be able to fit all the details in one shot into the same box, so we had to split it up into two, if not three seperate boxes showing different points of views of the scene. This was crucial and it taught us that no matter how much detail we would try and fit in, it just wouldn't be enough. What I learnt from the activity was that even though the whole page was covered in our writing, it was somewhat difficult to read. From this, I know that next time when we storyboard, we should have it a bit more simpler to understand but have enough detail.