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1. storyboarding with
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by Priscilla Angelique
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2. NOTES
Pre-visualization
Storyboarding with Moviestorm
why bother with pre-viz??
Matt Kelland
tells you why... 5.Save money: typically 30% - 50% of shooting
costs and 10% - 20% of post-production costs.
1.See your movie before you make it and make
creative decisions early. 6.Help your cast and crew all see the same vision
for the movie. Everyone can be involved: writer,
2.Saves you time 1st AD, editor, actors, production designers,
sound, music, DOP, lights, costume, makeup, etc.
Minimize standing around on set, 7.Any movie can benefit – even a short low-
minimize wasted shots, budget one. It’s not just for big productions.
speed up editing and post. The
more you know in advance what you’re
going to shoot and what the end result
should be, the quicker and easier it His Motto: fix it in pre!
becomes to get there.
3.Spot potential production issues early: easier to
work out how to shoot something when you know
exactly what you want.
4.Better production budgeting
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3. NOTES
Storyboards
Storyboarding with Moviestorm
what are storyboards? You might be wondering how to
describe a storyboard. You might ask “What is a storyboard and how can I create one?”
The following extract has been taken from the Wiki Books Movie Making Manual:
Storyboards are drawings of the sequence of mainly there to get a first idea of what the
shots for a script. It helps to pre-visualize film will look like. It gives indications of the
how the director wants the screenplay to be size of the shot, the camera angle and the
shot. As an image says more than a sequence of the shots. It is rarely followed
thousand words it is very useful as a basis to exactly but it is a helpful guideline during the
communicate the director's ideas to the crew shooting of a film. It's very common while a
and the producers. Some directors will crew is tearing down all the lighting rigs and
storyboard every scene and camera angle to moving to the next shot, the Director and DP
save time and money when they are on set. will be looking at the storyboard trying
Others however feel that this can inhibit their decide what is best before everything needs
creativity and will have very few graphic to be placed. Since they have those plans,
representations done before shooting they are more capable of improvising.
commences.
The main areas where storyboarding is
To get an idea of how you can storyboard regarded as essential are in the planning of
your movie, grab a comic book off the shelf elaborate stunts, special effects sequences
at a bookstore. Many large productions will and designing make-up and costumes.
have storyboards that are somewhere
between stick-man quality and full comic
book illustrations... Every time you
storyboard you will take that moment to see
the shot through the camera. It's a heck of a
lot less expensive than having a cast and
crew waiting for you to "discover your vision"
right there on the spot.... Storyboarding is
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