Storyboarding and Dialogue.

The story and dialogue were created and developed along side another, to create a synchronised relevant story in the end.
The dialogue had minor changes all the up until the narrations were recorded but the storyline was a solid idea early on, it just required a few tweaks to appear like a natural days events from start to finish.

The story line is basically a day in the life of Laura (the main character) and Dexy (her imaginary friend)beginning in the morning and ending at night time, with ups and downs in between.
primarily filmed inside the childs house and garden since the average childs world is only as big as its garden walls.

the stories basic paradigm and accompanying storyboard...

Initial storyboarding...

ACT 1

 

ACT 2

 

ACT 3

 

After developing the story board and deciding what was missing and what would've been too much information or boring and repetitive i began final storyboarding. This is what i would build my filming, location and resource list off.

As you can see from the paradigm and the storyboards i didn't want to plan every single detail, otherwise the child acting in this project might not be able to do everything. I had limitations and therefore wanted to leave room for error and accommodate the situation. 

The dialogue started simple but i found it a bit boring, constrictive and forced. So before and during narration recording i worked on the dialogue with (Laura) the child, this helped develop the dialogue to a more natural and realistic tone.

Problems that occurred during narration was fits of giggles and perfecting one aspect of a line so much the child forgot the aspects she was getting right. It was interesting and i think this project is proving to be very educational and allowing me to experiment and develop my skills in childrens television style.