Divide into groups of 3-4 students per group. (Try to avoid having the same people in your group as you did for previous exercises.) Spread yourselves out in the room so that each group assembles in one corner of the room.
Either working with hand-drawn sketches or using software (StoryboardPro, Photoshop, etc), develop a storyboard for the scene described below. Sketch out the visuals for each panel. Try to suggest the lighting in your sketches. Under each panel, write text to describe the soundtrack.
At the conclusion of the exercise, post your group's storyboard to your blogs. (If your storyboard was hand-drawn, you will need to scan your storyboard in order to do this.) Make sure the names of the people in the group are listed in the filename of your post. Also makesure you link to this post from your individual blog.
Here is the scene:
Background
Five people are about to rob a bank. (The audience already understands that they are about to do this.)
The Scene
It is nightime. An empty city street. Very dark. Very quiet. All five of the robbers are sitting inside a van parked across from the bank. One of the robbers is in the drivers' seat. The other four are in the back of the van. It is late at night, there is no one walking the streets, it is extremely dark and quiet outside. The robbers wait in the van for awhile. It is time to start. The four get out of the van and head toward the bank, the fifth stays in the van.
Direction
Storyboard this for live-action to be done in a very naturalistic, realistic way - that is, no wild exaggeration, slapstick, or cartoonish exaggeration - real people really about to rob a real bank. Because of the night-time setting, take special advantage of LIGHTING and of SOUND. You can't show much action because of the scene's darkness, so how can you really engage your audience? How can you use lighting and sound to convey what you want the audience to know? How can you use lighting and sound to deliberately conceal things? How can you use lighting and sound to create a mood or atmosphere that will really engage your audience?