Thumbnail Process and Possible Job Opportunity

Welcome back everyone. Hope you had a wonderful week. I found a storyboard job online that I applied for and during my mentor-ship we had a project to do thumbnails for a story. I turned them earlier this week to get reviewed by my mentor. You can check them out on my Instagram.

I had a lot of fun working on these boards because I got to play around and find what works and what doesn’t for the story. The story in a nutshell is about a boy seeing a magician perform. This magician says that he is going to choose “the chosen one” from the crowd. He ends up picking the little boy and some people pick on him because he is little and couldn’t possibly be the chosen one. The magician does some magic and proves that the boy is the chosen one by moving a bottle with his mind.

My thought process for this was since everyone looks down on the little boy, including the little boy who doubts that he is the chosen one, I would have the camera looking down on him. As the story continues the camera lowers and we meet the little boy at eye level as he starts to believe. Finally when he moves the bottle we end up looking up at him because he is the chosen one and there is no room left for disbelief.

There are still a lot I need to fix on this first pass, but I think it is coming along. There are some parts it’s hard to see where people are in relation to each other and I do cut the 180 rule at one point but I think I can fix that with a camera move. This is a great learning opportunity for me especially since it will get reviewed by my mentor and I can see where I should improve.

As far as the job I applied for, it looks like it is a freelance job that could lead to more down the road. I have a phone interview/meeting on Monday and I will let you all know how it goes. Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you next week to see how the meeting goes and more progress on my thumbnails. BOARD ON!