what are storyboards?
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This week
You will be learning about storyboarding techniques before
applying them to create your own storyboard.
You could also begin to understand the role a storyboard plays in a successful
production
By the end of today, you
MUST be able to identify the information required to create a storyboard
SHOULD be able to use illustration techniques to begin creating a storyboard for your music video
COULD explain the importance of storyboards to planning and production.
What is a storyboard?
It is a plan of the film, shot by shot, in
drawings.
Each frame of the storyboard is a different shot.
The whole video will be storyboarded out
before filming.
What do we use storyboards for?
The director and cinematographer will use them to plan
• Plan how each shot will look (called composition or framing)
• Plan how the sequence of shots will flow.
• Plan what audio we might need
Working in pairs
Annotate on the storyboard in front of you what information the artist is
giving you.
You have 2 minutes.
Some shots will be drawn over more than 1 frame where there is complicated action.
Instead of cut it will say CONT’D
All your shots should be numbered, eg/ 1, 2, 3, 4,
These numbers will also be on your shot list / shooting schedule
When do we create storyboards?
Storyboards are part of our pre-production planning as we will need them on set.
Who needs storyboards on set
- Director
- Assistant Director (1st AD)
- Director Of Photography (also known as a cinematographer)
- Camera operator
- Lighting technician
Director / Assistant Director
To check that the camera operators have framed each shot in the way they want and to check that they don’t miss any
shots out during filming.
Director Of Photography (DOP)
To plan the lighting design for each shot and check that camera operators
were getting the right shots.
Lighting Technician
Lighting technicians will have to recreate
specific lighting styles to maintain continuity
(or for effect) so it helps to have a visual aid of how the lighting of each shot is meant
to look.