Storyboards: Incy Wincy Spider

My storyboard task was to produce a storyboard of a nursery rhyme by creating a narrative in our own style for it. We started off by using thumb-nailing (storyboarding using sticky notes), which allowed us to quickly edit something we didn't like by throwing away a frame and drawing it differently (as opposed to throwing away a template and starting over again).

So this was my interpretation of the nursery rhyme. You can see that the spider has a purpose for going up the water spout, that isn't revealed until the end of the storyboard. I tried giving some character to the spider's design, so that it has aesthetic appeal. I figured it would just be a generic spider only with some facial features, a tuft of hair and two big cartoony eyes with three little ones on either side of the head. It would also use its front legs as arms. these features make the spider seem more "human" and therefore easy to connect to.

This is how the storyboard ended up:

As you can see, there were a few changes made but it has the same idea. In this final version, you can see the lighting is important, particularly in the last page. This was to symbolise the different moods of each scene and how they contrast between the gloomier opening and the happier tone of the ending.