In my attempts to organize and reorganize my thoughts, I've come up with another outline of the project (Figure 1)... Here's how to read it:
On the right hand side, we have the major CONCEPTS or KEY MESSAGES that need to be addressed. These are written in black.
These point were then broken up into what I would call ARCS or STORY ARCS which are written in a gray.
The orange written points are then the SHOTS. Each line is an individual POINT or PROCESS placed underneath a major arc-subheading and arranged in a chronological order. The orange dotted lines that extend towards the left indicate that that particular shot will make its way into my storyboard (Again, because it's a 3-5 minute film, I could only select the points which I hope we have agreed were the most salient).
The blue words on the left - written 'intro', 'block', 'build', 'peak', and 'wrap' - are the BEATS of my film. As explained in a previous entry ("Beat Board"), beats represent the flow of a film or story. Traditionally, a total of 5 beats, no more no less, are illustrated in order to help focus the visual and narrative story. Working from these beats we can then break the story up into scenes (not labelled in this diagram) and into shots.
The shots with the dotted lines are here organized underneath the different beats. It's from this outline that I'm going to continue the development of the rest of my storyboard.
NOTE: My most recent entry, "Intro beats", the panels were expansions of my the conceptualization of my first beat seen in "Beat Board", the immediately preceding entry. In the context of THIS entry, the five panels from "Intro beats" find themselves situated between INTRO and BLOCK. I hope I haven't confused too many...
Figure 1. The blue-coloured words are
perhaps best understood as a film script
or storyboard's terminology for climax,
dénouement, etc.
