Illustrating Story-Board
June 12, 2008
Storyboarding is a very integral part of any filmmaking process.. This is where it all begins.
A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.
When a person is done done breaking a story down into its elements – both in terms of its content and the different media one could use – one needs to reassemble all that into a rough storyboard.
A rough storyboard doesn’t have to be high art – it’s just a sketch. And it isn’t written in stone – it’s just a guide.
Creating a storyboard will helps us plan our film shot by shot. Its an amazing ability to quickly transfer ideas into visual images.
The storyboard artist’s job is to plan out shot for shot the whole film, write all the dialogues, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.
The storyboard and the storyboard artist is a collaboration where we can pre-articulate exactly the coverage we are wanting to achieve, which to us is essential for particularly complex physical sequences.
The storyboards that we make, conveys some of the following information:
- What charaters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
- What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
- How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
- Where the “camera” is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?
The storyboard and script methods are used as conjunction with one another. Creating a storyboard allows to It helps identify the resources (time, equipment, assistance) & refine - examine the overall story-line.
A storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. In the storyboarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film efficiently described either in picture, or in additional text.The process of visual thinking and planning allows us to brainstorm together, placing all our ideas on storyboards and then arranging the storyboards on the wall. This fosters more ideas and generates consensus inside the group.
Storyboarding offers the Art Department a valuable visual tool. It allows the Production Designer, Director and Cinematographer to focus their energies into a controlled frame, and this in our opinion can only lead to an increase in production value.
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