Storyboard Assignment: Night of the Living Dead

For my storyboard, I did the scene from Night of the Living Dead. In the film, that scene takes place in what looks like a living room. Judging by the molding and walls, the house looks to be pretty old. In my version of the scene, I filmed in my bedroom loft space, because it was the only location I really had access to. Different from the much older house in the film, my room is much more modern, being built in the early 2000’s. The film version of the house, outside of immovable elements, like the molding and doors everything is pretty empty.
The only real apparent set dressing that I noticed was all the boards across the doors and windows. I tried to recreate this for my scene using cardboard and styrofoam. (On a side note, styrofoam, painted with acrylic paint and water, is a great way to make lightweight fake wood planks.) For lighting in my scene, I used the lights in the room and took off any lamp shades (this also worked well as a prop). I also use reflectors to keep the shadows in my dramatic lighting from being so harsh. Outside of the wood planks, I also made any paintings on the wall crooked.  For the keys the script called for, I used an old car key set (without a key FOB) and put black duct tape on it. The blankets on the bed in my scene are a white, almost lacy fabric because I thought this would fit well in an older abandoned house. I really wanted to find an old TV for this scene, but was unable to do this. I knew the TV would be a huge part of the props and way the scene feels, so I used to cardboard boxes in place of a  TV stand. As well, the characters would have likely use the wood of the TV stand to board up the windows and doors. To further block the doors, I pushed a dresser in front of the door to “the outside.”