Final Storyboard

Storyboard and colour script

I firstly created the storyboard in block colours with minimum detail.

After making this storyboard, I was able to create a colour script to see the overall colours within the animation. This allows me to identify the mood and atmosphere created from the colour palette.

Improvements to storyboard

For the beginning of the animation, the rhino should be introduced to the audience so that they can relate to him. Perhaps it could be a close up of the characters face and an establishing shot of him in the environment. 

- Reduce the amount of environments

- Emphasise the shot of the dead rhino carcass and make it more graphic, the audience should witness the harsh reality of rhino poaching!

- Explore the different times of day... the journey of the rhino could just be over the span of a day instead of several days.

- Silhouettes for poachers, helicopter and establishing shot of dead rhino carcass (silhouettes should come in 3's) 

Third storyboard

Second storyboard

Improvements to storyboard

The rhino perspective (RhinoCam) needs to build more tension and fear.

- Could work as a montage...

1. Shot of rhino looking around- to establish landscape/environment
2. cuts to it fleeing through long grass.
3. Sound FX of shouting and gunfire
4. Cuts to dusk, its feeding again.
5. Cuts to daytime, stood over the dead carcass of another rhino.
6. Cuts to fleeing again, and so on... untill it is established that the rhino is living in fear.
7. Eventually the shot of the rhino fleeing from the poachers and its hit  and screen blurs then fades to black... then sounds of helicopter and possibly narration about poachers over the black screen?
8. The eyes open, blinks 
9. View of beautiful landscape, animals grazing etc, other rhinos 
10. Narration about moving rhinos to a safer place.

First Storyboard