Visual Metaphor Proposal

I.   Project Title: Farewell

II.  Team Members: Xinyue， Qifan  

III.  Concept | Storyline:

 1). The piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice over?  

 “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.”― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

2) storyline

Line1–A lady put down all the photos—- memories and left home. Running quickly towards the streets to the airport, he is resolute to get into the unknown future where his new life may start. Just like stepping over the fallen leaves, which shows the death of the past, and running from the forest to the grass that seemed to be scary, but once stepped into, became bright.

Line2– An airplane is setting off.

3). What kind of style/aesthetics are you going to pursue?

Realistic incidents with unrealistic expressions.

IV.  Execution Plan:

1). What equipment are you going to use when shooting the movie? (cell phone, DSLR camera, sound recorder, stabilizer..)

Camera, tripods, stabilizer, sound recorder.

2). Which locations will it be shot at? When is it?

Airport&Park&Inside a room&Streets

Both daytime and nighttime.

3). What are some challenges you might encounter and how will you prepare?

Struggling with technical troubles—- Some research in advance

Failing to convey the main idea—- Elaboration on the storylines

Bad control of light and missing the best time when shooting outside—- Predictions in advance

4) Division–– Undecided

V.   Storyboard Draft