Storyboarding

For my graphic novel i understand what story area i am following and what i want to happen but i don't know what imagery i would use to show it in a graphic novel. From my research i understand basic layouts and piecing images together but i have to think and choose for myself what i want the viewers to see and how they interpret the images.

I started by roughly plotting my ideas out for images to help tell the points i want them to. The first attempt was very plain and quick as it was many to see the key areas and points and to see angles and action.



The first panel i went over in more detail as i was sure that i wanted it to be my first image. As the storyboard goes it follows from behind the hunter in which he is traveling through long grass and high trees. This gradually follows the hunter closer and then as he notices something he turns. I then have a eye which would be in a tree hidden behind leaves to hint there is something watching him. again we see the hunter as i wanted to show him over all from the front. Again i wanted to slowly work the creature into the novel so i made it appear and disappear from a tree in two panels as you cant see it but notice it is moving. I wanted to change things up as most images have been of the hunter from the front or back from a medium shot so i thought a birds eye view would create a following effect and as the creature is stalking him i thought could see the creature appearing behind him ready to jump. At this point i want to follow a chase so that i can change the area as this part of the story involves a scifi twist. keeping in mind of the area they are still runing through trees and highgrass and then come to a mud cliff that is not to high but a fall non the less. What i have done is shown this by a image which would be just mud and in the novel scroll up to see a grass edge and the quick fight with the creature. I chose that the fight would be in a form of a charge and stab to make it look quick pased as if it was the first to strike the first to win. As i placed them by the egde i could then make the fall down into the next area. Because im showing a story that is hundreds in the years in the alteritive future i wanted the top of the room they would fall in to be over grown with grass so it appears they will hit the floor but they break through instead. This is were the twist happens with the character in a dark scifi room in which he touches and activates a computer as he gets up.