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Storyboard, 2023

Stalking Prevention PSA

2023

Storyboard and shot design, commissioned

Subin Yu (유수빈) drew the storyboard for a stalking-prevention public service video commissioned by Jeonju Women's Hotline (전주여성의전화), designing the shots, camera moves and the pause/rewind/play structure.

Content note

Public-service campaign about stalking. Depicts following and covert photography. Non-graphic.

Board pages 1-4

Panel 4

  1. Six greyscale panels: a rose on wet pavement, a PAUSE icon over a dark frame, REWIND and PLAY icons over a motion-blurred street, a woman's heels walking.

    01P1

  2. Six greyscale panels: a woman photographing herself, a phone screen with hearts and comments, a hooded figure in the background.

    02P2

  3. Six greyscale panels showing one continuous zoom-out from rose petals to a photograph to a wall of monitors covered in photographs of the same woman.

    03P3

  4. Six greyscale panels: a dark stairwell, a hooded figure following, a hand on a door, a woman silhouetted against a lit doorway.

    04P4

Read all panels
  1. Six greyscale panels: a rose on wet pavement, a PAUSE icon over a dark frame, REWIND and PLAY icons over a motion-blurred street, a woman's heels walking.
    01 P1. A rose falls. PAUSE holds for two beats. REWIND, then PLAY on the same street with the camera one step behind her.
  2. Six greyscale panels: a woman photographing herself, a phone screen with hearts and comments, a hooded figure in the background.
    02 P2. She takes a selfie and posts it. The phone screen fills with likes while a figure watches from behind.
  3. Six greyscale panels showing one continuous zoom-out from rose petals to a photograph to a wall of monitors covered in photographs of the same woman.
    03 P3. Zoom out: petals to her photo to one tile on a monitor covered in surveillance photos.
  4. Six greyscale panels: a dark stairwell, a hooded figure following, a hand on a door, a woman silhouetted against a lit doorway.
    04 P4. The follow: feet on stairs, a hand on a rail, her door, and the shadow behind her as the statistics come up.

The script had to say, in under a minute, that an ordinary walk can be someone else's recording. I proposed a video player as the frame. A rose falls. The picture holds on PAUSE for two bars. REWIND, then PLAY, and the same street runs again with the camera one step behind her.

Page three is the turn. The zoom-out starts on rose petals and keeps pulling back until the petals are a photograph of her, and then until that photograph is one tile on a monitor covered in surveillance shots.

The boards are greyscale with painted value, so lighting and silhouette read before any colour decisions. The camera notes (zoom, pan, focus pulls) are written on the frames in Korean. The English captions carry the same information.