STORYBOARD

PITCH (INCLUDE YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE DEMOGRAPHICS) – 150 WORDS

ELEVATOR PITCH – 1 MINUTE PRESENTATION – WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOUR IDEA FROM OTHERS? HOW WILL IT BE ACHIEVED?

BUDGET – DETAIL COSTS AND INCLUDE CONTINGENCY (15%)

SCHEDULE

SHOOT

CAST LIST

CREW

LOCATION

EQUIPMENT (INC LIGHTS)

FIRST ROUGH CUT DELIVERY DATE

GREEN SCREEN

MAKE SURE SCREEN IS SMOOTH

IRON THE CLOTH

MAKE SURE NO SHADOWS ON SCREEN

AN EVEN TONE ACROSS SURFACE

ENOUGH SPACE IN FRONT OF SCREEN TO PLACE LIGHTS AND SUBJECT

Add background to timeline (project)

Then add green screen footage

Drop on top of background – choose Greenscreen from options

Crop green screen footage

Use colour grading (choose Video in Inspector – double click on clip) to make the green as even as possible

Using green screen shapes to break up the screen

Create your pattern in Photoshop –first make a freeze frame (right click on clip – make a freeze frame)

Right click on clip and open in finder then choose Photoshop to open the freeze frame.

This gives you a template.

In Photoshop create a new layer and hide or delete the freeze frame clip.

Create your shapes using a bright green (refer to iMovie for exact tone)

If you want to use several layers of green screen footage (different colours or sizes or completely

different footage) create layers in Photoshop and then hide them for each iMovie green screen layer before

saving as a PNG

There is an iMovie bug which means that your shapes will have a dark, seriated

edge when added. There doesn’t seem to be a way around this so… use the

effect.

Add your own black borders to the shapes.

Make the shapes rough around the edges – add Gaussian blur to try different effects

For each layer, add your green shapes.

‘Share’ the movie (save the clip as a movie) and then import the movie in as green

screen footage (as before) dropped on top of whatever additional footage you want to

be visible.

Export as a movie again and import as much as you need to.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

YOU CAN ESTABLISH THE BASIC CONTEXT FOR YOUR SHOT IN A FEW

SECONDS.

ONCE ESTABLISHED, THE INFORMATION CAN BECOME BORING WITHOUT SOME MOVEMENT, EITHER LITERALLY OR IN THE NARRATIVE.

http://www.youtube.com/user/indymogul?feature=watch

GREAT LOW BUDGET MOVIE MAKING TIPS