Brief introduction to storyboards and a task

1. WHAT is a Storyboard
and
WHY is it needed?

2. What is a storyboard?
• Storyboarding is the process of
producing sketches of the shots of
your script.

3. Why do we need a Storyboard?

4. Why do we need a Storyboard?
• It helps you think about how your film is going to look.

5. Why do we need a
Storyboard?• Helps you work faster - as pictures communicate
better than words
• shows camera crew where to move their camera and
lights
• Shows art department which parts of the location
• Even the actors will get a feel of what they are going to
be shooting!

6. Professional storyboard artists
• However its a good idea to bash them out yourself, it allows you to
experiment quickly and cheaply, testing out different versions of how
a scene may look and play on camera.

8. Storyboard
Storyboarding is especially useful for complex visual sequences e.g.
elaborate shots or special effects sequences.

9. Storyboards

11. Alfred Hitchcock The Birds (1963)

12. • Notice how arrows are used to
indicate camera movement.

13. ECU Julie as
bullet whizzes
past her face.
Slow Mo.
SFX ‘whoosh’

14. What must you include??
Storyboard

15. • Indicate Video (picture)
• Show each different shot
• Number each frame and page
• Show directions of action or camera
move
• Indicate: Sound. Dialogue references,
music & SFX (Diegetic & Non Diegetic)
• Indicate Transitions (dissolve, cut, wipe
etc)
• Indicate duration of shot
Storyboard your film/extract
20 frames

16. Storyboard the following
sequence1. Extreme long shot (XLS) ext school
2. Wide shot interior classroom. Camera tracks right
3. Cut to 2 shot of boy and girl writing at desks
4. Extreme close of pen writing in paper
5. Cut to Wide 2 shot again. Reaction as off screen noise can be heard
6. Cut to close up of girl
7. Cut to close up of boy
8. Medium long shot of door slowly opening
9. Cut to close up of girl
10. Cut to close up of boy
11. Cut close up of hideous old and curling itself around the door
12. YOU DECIDE HOW IT FINISHES (1-3 shots)