Differences Between Storyboard and Final Cut

Firstly, the fact that we changed the last two thirds of our storyboard when actually filming which was the main change we made. Although we did film the storyboard as we drew it, we filmed extra footage and in the end our final cut looked very different to how we originally planned it. However the original ideas are still visible.

The main change we made was cutting the scenes from the interior of the house which made up the second half of the storyboard. We relocated the phone call from that part to within the alleyway section of the storyboard. This also meant that we cut the lighting of the cigarette scene. We did this to improve the pacing so that there would be no long sections where nothing of interest happens. A lot of what we did film is shot for shot the same as the storyboard along with some additional filler shots. Despite this, in reality the storyboard was never designed to be exactly what our final cut would turn out like, it was simply scaffolding.

We didn't put any of the voice over narration into the storyboard even though we knew we would be using it because we didn't think there was a specific alignment between the sentences and the action on screen. We wrote the narration some weeks later than we drew the story board.