Storyboarding

Whether right or wrong, I had envisioned quite a few cut-scenes in the game as cinematic 'set-pieces' and as I had already done pre-viz images for screenshots for the game I decided to use a cut scene for my storyboard. (Newman, 2009.)

Following advice from other students, I decided to eliminate the use of quick-time events for the cut-scenes and just show an action sequence. Websites such as http://www.cracked.com/funny-5873-quick-time-events/ show why these 'QTE's' break up the flow of gameplay. For the cut-scene's themselves, personally I think as long as they aren't too long winded I think they can serve the game well and deliver the player from point a to point b in a way which may not have been possible without it's use.

After looking at some references such as this storyboard for an used 'Flash' digital game concept...

I began sketching out my cut scene, using just simple colors to just get the general idea of the scene. I wanted the scene to revolve around a part of the game where the protagonist follows a truck which has kidnapped one of the other people from the project...

On the storyboards, I tried to focus just as much on how the 'camera' would move just as much as on the action in the scene. If I get time I would like to try my hand at realising an animated version of the scene or perhaps doing a short comic book style version.