ET story boarding scene

This is from the second opening scene where we meet the boys/ Elliott. There are several strategic camera angles, highlighting Elliot. He is a small figure literally but also plays into that by being ignored and put into the background. I especially liked the part where he has to wrangle the telephone cord over his head in order to get their attention. Steve, the "game master", only looks up at him for a about a second, and to tell him he can play with them if he gets the pizza. In fact the only time he only gets any kind of response from them when he is about to go pick up their pizza.


Overall the scene is pretty well composed and I liked drawing the different angles and alignments of each of the five boys. Each one gets some placement as the main focus of the shot.
Thanks to Emma Coats for the inspiration.