Film Study - 300

While discussing the film module with a fellow student i thought about my key role in the group and how it could relate to films i have seen and enjoyed, 300 came up when thinking about storyboarding along with sin city, i will look at the storyboard style of the film and how techniques like it work for certain films.



After looking a little more into where the style of 300 came from, i realised just how much the makers of this film have stuck to the colour theme and style of the comic book. The film is entirely based on the comic book which is a 5 issue limited edition Dark Horse Comics series which was written and illustrated by Frank Miller (Sin city also) and which was painted by Lynn Varley. From looking at the comic book myself i can see that the film has stuck pretty rigidly to the story and style of the comic book shown here.

The contrast between the black of the shadows and the saturated light of the sky is a defining feature of the 300 series, and when watching the film and from looking at the box cover i personally right from the start had a different idea in my head of what the film might be like because i had never seen such a highly saturated stylised film before and expected not to like it as much as it turned out i did.

As shown again from other images in the comic book series the theme of black shadows and mild greens and yellows sticks.

From a storyboarders point of view a comic book series is always easier to realise because it is already done for you, a comic book is essentially a storyboard and even though there would be issues like camera positioning which a film may find tricky but a comic book will find easy all a storyboarder of a comic book has to do is re draw what is already done for them in the comic but with film camera angles being considered.