We were shown a few examples of how storyboards can work in Fred's lecture, but I have looked at some more to help me with my task from after the time sequencing workshop, to give me some ideas of what storyboards could work best. I've started with defining what storyboards are.
What are storyboards?
- a sequence of pictures created by a production illustrator to communicate the desired general visual appearance on camera of a scene or movie.
- a form of shooting script common for animated films for many years and now usually used for commercials, even live-action ones. It consists of a series of sketches showing key positions for every scene, with dialogue and descriptive notes below
- process of visual thinking
- rough sketches showing plot
- helps author to edit and improve
- experiment with changes in storyline
- can use arrows and annotation
- work out if something doesnt work before you have to pay for it!
- Wikipedia definition: graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation,motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios
Hand Drawn
sticky notes are a good idea as they will be easy to move around if the sequence needs to be changed, easy to scrap one if it goes wrong without ruining the whole thing, however, they can be hard to transport to show others and may get bent/damaged easily
rough drawings, with arrows and annotations to show movement and to check the idea works
drawings can go outside of the frame to show how the action would go off screen
can be in whatever order you like, as long as it is easy for you to understand, make your own notes to make it easier
detailed drawings for frames
disney storyboards, images with annotations underneath, all can be moved around if necessary, but presented on a board that makes it more durable than designing with post it notes
examples of disney storyboards, important to show this as this is how storyboards were invented! these storyboards help the artists get the idea out of their head and to show others
more disney storyboards, these can be quite long and complex as they are may be for feature length films with lots of characters
as a car crash is obviously an expensive stunt to pull, it was important that this moment was drawn out on a storyboard to check that it would get the effect the director is going for, so that the stunt did not have to be re-done in real life
Screen Grabs
the content already created on computer, and a screen shot is taken, a moment is captured, these are useful for showing the idea to others
'up' storyboard, however, this one seems to be more like a flip book style rather than just keeping it simple with only showing the key frames
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