planning - What is storyboarding? - Miss B

What is storyboarding?

Storyboarding is the pre-production process of literally drawing shots on paper that will become the template for your intended film or animation production before you begin production.

Why use storyboarding?

It is both an artistic and logistic process allowing the film crew to have a visual idea of what the director wants in the scene before the actors, actresses, props and set get involved.  The role of a good storyboard artist is to prevent a lot of wasted time in filming aspects of the scene that are not what the director is looking for, as well as streamlining or eliminating unnecessary scenes and filming requirements from the production.

Why is it important to use tory boarding?,  what makes a thriller specific?

Film making is hugely collaborative and a good storyboard represents a road map that can keep everyone on track during production.  It lets you see the plan ahead of time and allows the various departments involved to prepare in advance of the cameras rolling.

You can use storyboards in all types of motion projects to help you organise your work and give your clients an idea of what your final project will look like.

Trying to remember everything you want to do even in a short animation piece will be impossible, as a project grows in length, storyboarding becomes more and more useful.  The storyboard also helps you think visually.

I would not use storyboards on simple productions such as talking head shots, this would be a waste of time and money; nor on unpredictable situations such as random pick up shots at a shoot or sports event such as a football match.  In these circumstances you would be better off creating a shot list for the types of shots you want to capture.

What elements should go into a story board?

A good storyboard artist will understand about cinematography and editing which will allow them to create a realistic storyboard.  Considerations include aspect ratio, lenses, composition, perspective, as well as how things will cut together.  It should also be clear and concise so that anyone, at a glance, can understand it.

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Here are two different versions of batman created by using storyboard. There are advantages and disadvantages to this, an advantage is for the creator of the film they roughly will know what will have to be done in the actual animated film. But also there is disadvantages to this, the actual watcher of the video (audience) does not pin point know what is going on and if there is any noises made in the background which they don’t see a picture too, they will be confused.

By looking in to storyboarding I could see that I have learnt a various amount of stuff. Things I will need to look upon while animating my own thriller, such as making things clear with the sound I use in the background and making things clear visually.