48 Hour Assignment
This video was made for the second team assignment for Carnegie Mellon University’s Visual Story course. The assignment was to produce, shoot, and edit a story where the main character must change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. We could not kill the main character in the story and we could not use any dialogue in the video. We had to complete the assignment in 48 hours. We were given the following list of possible story arcs:
Main character:
Person needs protection
Partygoer
Person who doesn’t get the hint
Cheater
Hitchhiker
Person who doesn’t feel attractive enough
Object of a crush
The Conflict:
What is that smell?
Where is everyone?
Mirror
The last one
Car won’t start
Nobody is watching
Shouldn’t have touched it
Long walk with an old friend
Note on windshield
After deciding on a main character that does not feel attractive enough, we chose note on windshield to let our main character find love and lead in to a happy ending. Our team decided on a studious main character that, over time, felt more attractive because of a secret admirer leaving notes on her windshield.
Storyboards
Garage Production Shot List
Because it was going to be extremely cold, I decided to use an industry-standard shots list to keep the outdoor scenes on track. Keeping to this schedule in Pittsburgh’s intense cold was very helpful in keeping team morale high.
Garage Shot List