Storyboard

What is storyboard?

Once a concept or script is done for the film or music video, the following step is to make a storyboard. It enables to visualise the flow of camera shots and sets which are wanted to eventually appear on the screen. When the words of the scrip are broken into unit of actions and drawn as a storyboard it is much easier to understand whether the idea is going to work. Consequently the storyboard helps to change the sequence of the shots, movement of actors, camera directions and lightening directions/ In addition the storyboard illustrates how the narrative will flow from one shot to the next as the audience watches the music video/film.

The Storyboard shot include:

· What characters 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

As Matthew Jones. Television Script Editor of Red Productions said ‘ In a production meeting, a picture really is worth a thousand words. You can script a sequence in words as clearly as you like, and there will always be same misunderstanding. But if you use storyboards, it’s so much easier to communicate your visual driving ideas’

 

 

Why we should make storyboards?

Example of storyboard:


Creating a storyboard helps to plan the animation out shot by shot. It is also possible to make changes to the storyboard before starting animating. Instead of changing your mind later. Moreover it would be also possible to show the storyboard to other people to get feedbacks about the ideas

 

We have to shoot our music video on one day, therefore right now we are working on our storyboard to have some ideas about the video and to understand whether it can be implemented. As a group we have division of labour, each of us is doing the set task. As an example I am indicating the types of shot and angles which should be used and the varieties of lighting we should use. Moreover I am correcting the storyboard, by checking whether there are any mistakes.