Storyboard

Below are my draw storyboard panels. I used this to plan how sections from chapters four and five of the book could be converted into footage.

1. Establishing shot of classroom with.MS (mid-shot) of teacher. The teacher is pointing at the board and talking to the class. Scene opens with a school bell SFX (sound effect). 
Teacher: "For the half term assignment, you needed to brin in an important item..."
Time: 0:00 to 2:30 mins

2.  Wide angle shot from Beckett’s POV (Point of view). Teacher is stood in the background. The other students’ heads fill the foreground. 
Teacher: "Beckett, you can just talk about anything important from your childhood."
Time: 2:30 to 3:30 mins

3.  Same shot as Storyboard image 2, but now with students turned and looking directly at the camera, (or Beckett).
Teacher: "Perhaps you could start, in fact?"
Time: 3:30 to 4:00 mins

4.  ECU (Extreme close-up) of Beckett’s eye, wide and twitching. A bead of sweat rolls down the side of his head. Violin sting SFX.
Beckett: "I can't mention Mum's armchair..."
Time: 4:00 to 4:30 mins

5. Shot from Becket’s POV, we see Beckett's clenched hand pull out from his trouser pocket.
Time: 4:30 to 5:00 mins

6. CU (Close-up) of Beckett’s hand opening to reveal that he’s holding a paper bird. Collective "Ooo!" SFX.
Time: 5:00 to 5:30 mins

7. MCU (Medium close-up) shot of teacher showing a happy, almost excited, expression.
Teacher: "A legend! Yes indeed, there's a most interesting legend behind that...."
Time: 5:30 to 7:00 mins

8. Shot fades and dissolves, transforming into a dream like state. Dissolves into next shot.
Teacher: "Pin back your ears. (Clears throat) Once upon a time..."
Time: 7:00 to 7:30 mins

9. As teacher tells the story in voice-over, the story is re-enacted in the form of shadow puppet theatre. The background is cloudy and simplistic, almost blank. In the foreground is the silhouette of a man holding a square piece of paper. Chinese styled music SFX.
Teacher (V.O.): "In a land of cherry blossoms...
Time: 7:30 to 8:00 mins

10. CU of the square piece of paper, also shown in silhoutte form.
Teacher (V.O.): "Ledgend tells of the oragamy crane..."
Time: 8:00 to 8:30 mins

11. Square of paper quickly folds into a paper bird.
Teacher (V.O.): "Cranes are mystical creatures and are said to live to be a thousand year old..."
Time: 8:30 to 9:30 mins

12. Shot of the silhouetted man now holding the paper bird.
Teacher (V.O.): "And so, whoever is able to fold 1000 cranes, for each year of the crane's life..."
Time: 9:30 to 11:00 mins

13. Multiple paper birds, all in silhouette form appear across the shot.
Teacher (V.O.): "Is granted a wish."
Time: 11:00 to 11:30 mins

14. Paper bird silhouettes multiply and cover the shot completely, making it fade to black.
Time: 11:30 to 12:00 mins

15.Shot pulls out, revealing the black shot to be an ECU of Beckett’s pupil.
Time: 12:00 to 12:10 mins

16. Shot continues to zoom out, until it is a CU shot of Beckett, looking stunned/in awe.
Beckett: "Wow!"
Time: 12:10 to 12:40 mins

17. Panning shot of different school books on a bookshelf with teacher’s finger running across them. Piano SFX.
Time: 12:40 to 13:00 mins

18. Shot stops panning as teacher picks up a book and removes it from the shelf.
Time: 13:00 to 13:20 mins

19. Teacher drops the book on Beckett’s desk. Shot zooms in on the book title, revealing it to be a book on Origami. Thud SFX.
Time: 13:20 to 13:30 mins

20. Panning shot of long, overly complicated and confusing instructions on how to create an origami bird. This section could possibly be animated since it is just book images/drawings. Leroy Anderson's Typewriter music SFX.
Time: 13:30 to 14:00 mins

21. ECU of Beckett’s pupils flicking from side to side as he reads the instructions. Sped up footage so the eyes flick quickly.
Time: 14:00 to 14:30 mins

22. Sped up Bird’s-eye view footage of Beckett folding paper birds.
Time: 14:30 to 15:00 mins

23. Wide angle shot of empty table being filled with paper birds.
Time: 15:00 to 16:00 mins

24. Low angle shot zooming out. Beckett is sat in the background, piles/stacks of paper birds appear in foreground. This shot starts as a CU of Becket, but as the camera pulls away, more and more paper bird are revealed until the viewer can no longer fully see Beckett’s face. Low angle shot should exaggerate how many paper birds are piled up.
Time: 16:00 to 17:00 mins