This is the original storyboard and using it as a reference to take the photos. There is some changes done in the 4th picture, so some changes was made during the photo taking. Since it is hard to see someone saving a goal in that posture in 1 picture so the angle of the photo take was changed. The sequence of the 1 and 2 is also swapped since I think that introduction of the character should come first before the story starts instead of in the middle of it.
This is what the picture is trying to say.
1) Some guy in a soccer field
2) He is trying to take a penalty shoot out
3) He is shooting the ball
4) The goalkeeper is attempting to catch "something"
5) It turns out to be a shoe ( the twist)
6) The ball went into the goal while the goal keeper caught the wrong thing
7) The shoe was from the guy who took the penalty shoot out
8) The guy is blushing (the end)
When given this task I was already trying to create the story with a twist. I was thinking of making a twist which is the goal keeper seems to caught ball but end it not really so. Was thinking of some guy shooting a ball during a match but that requires too many actors involved and it is not that easy to get so many people to be willing to be in the photo as most of friends are too shy to be in the photo, so I changed it to a penalty shoot out which only needs 2 actor and 1 camera man. Although I thought of the possibility of using action figures to do the story telling then I would not have a limit in the amount of people, but figures lack the natural human motion or posture and facial expression, so I thought that most likely it will not turn up well. The twist is introduced in the middle of the story which some people might think that it will be early, but since in this case there is a need to set up the story and explain what happened actually that cause the twist so I decided to put the twist in the middle. The 3rd picture which is the guy attempting to shoot the ball was selected from a few possibilities. One is the moment before the guy kick the ball with his leg swung backwards. The other one is the moment the leg is contacting the ball which is the one used currently. The last one is the the moment after the guy kicked the ball with his leg still hanging in the mid air after the leg swung forward. The 1st and 2nd option tend to be seen in posters and the 3rd options is often seen in soccer manga. Since it is a choice for real photos so I chose between the 1st and 2nd one. My friends who was there during the taking of the photo and is also soccer player during the secondary school and JC days commented that the 2nd one conveys the idea of kicking a ball more. Maybe it was because of the influence from some of the soccer posters and advertisements who shows a soccer player in that pose( but I think their leg is a few inch more further away from ball when I recall and typing this journal) it gave them an idea that that pose is closer towards kicking a ball. So in the end I chose the 2nd one.
Since I cannot get another guy to be the main actor so I ended up being one. But when I was looking through the photos, I realized that my soccer boots has a very similar color to my socks. But I still feel that the difference can be seen, so nothing was done to it. But to make things better, I added some lines to allow the viewer to focus the attention on the leg without the shoe. It is also sort of some manga visual effects of trying to make the viewer focusing on something else.
I made the blushing a bit exaggerated by adding in red lines on the face in the last picture to convey the idea of blushing more clearly to the viewer.
Problems mentioned by classmates
1) what was the first picture for?
(come to think of it I also felt that it is quite an extra picture, but i was trying to introduce the character, maybe it was an unnecessary picture)
2) The 3rd picture does not convey the idea of kicking a ball
( partially due to my poor acting and balance, it was quite hard to stay in that pose for too long. I felt that it might also look like someone dribbling after looking at it furthermore, so it was my acting that fails me. This is a problem of people with different type of exposure. Which different level of background knowledge and exposure to soccer, some pose means different things to different people. I guess I need to think in a more general sense to convey the message to the other people who don't play or watch soccer that often.This picture needs to be replaced)
3) Some black and white picture is needed to explain what happened really happened. More of like recall to the past. The picture is added after the 5th picture.
(I never thought of this at all. I think that this is a brilliant addition. I always thinks things in a very linear manner, that makes me fails to consider about this. Anyway this will be added in the next draft)
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