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The Art of Storyboarding

The document discusses the importance of storyboarding for planning film shoots. It explains that storyboarding involves sketching each shot of the film along with a description, including the shot number, description of the shot type and camera angle, a brief description of the action or dialogue, and the duration of the shot. Storyboarding helps decide what story to tell, plan shots to achieve the desired result given available resources, and respects others' time on the project. It allows for improvisation once required shots are completed. The document provides an example storyboard for planning a scene from North by Northwest.

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The Art of Storyboarding

The document discusses the importance of storyboarding for planning film shoots. It explains that storyboarding involves sketching each shot of the film along with a description, including the shot number, description of the shot type and camera angle, a brief description of the action or dialogue, and the duration of the shot. Storyboarding helps decide what story to tell, plan shots to achieve the desired result given available resources, and respects others' time on the project. It allows for improvisation once required shots are completed. The document provides an example storyboard for planning a scene from North by Northwest.

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The Art of Storyboarding

Planning a Shoot.
 Decide what you want to end up with:
1. What story do you want to tell?
2. Who is your audience?
 How do you want them to react?
3. What are your resources?
4. How can you shoot your film to achieve the
result you want . . . with the resources you have?

All things are possible!


. . . Some just take more time and more money than
others.
Pulling it together.
 You’ve got story, equipment, crew,
locations, cast, and you know your
audience, so now . . .
 Plan each shot of your film.
 More time used inpreparation, but saves you
(and your cast/crew/editors) time, energy,
and money
 It may not feel like it during the preparation, but it does!
 (no reshoots!)
Planning each shot . . .
Indicates you respect the time of
others on your project.

Gives you freedom! to IMPROV


 Once all your required shots are done, you can try
some fun angles, or let your actors play in character!
 Best stuff often happens here!
 “I would prefer to write all this down,
however tiny the film [is]. They should
be written down in just the same way a
composer writes down those little black
dots from which we get beautiful
sound.”
 --Alfred Hitchcock
Storyboarding
 Storyboard: A sketch of, and brief
description of each shot. It includes:
 Shot number.
 Description of shot.
 (Long/Medium/Close-up)
 Camera Angle
 Brief Description of Action/Dialogue
 Duration of shot.

--NxNW Storyboard handout


North by Northwest

 The premise: Roger Thornhill (Cary


Grant) is a fugitive from the law.
Against all odds, he must find a way to
prove his own innocence. In this scene,
he has been told he’ll get some
information from a mysterious man
named Kaplan at a remote intersection.
Storyboarding:
To get to a point where you’re ready
to shoot, you need to storyboard, so

How should it look?


•Shot number. (1)
•Description of shot. (Extreme Long Shot)
•Camera Angle (Aerial)
•Brief Description of Action/Dialogue (empty
fields, bus arriving, door opening,
•Duration of shot. (split with next frame at 52
seconds) -Why start with this shot?
-Why shift to an eye-level shot?
Now we’re near/with the character . . .
Turn to POV

Turn to POV

Turn to POV . . .
Turn to POV
WHY?
Introduce character/information
Watch scene.
Storyboard Assignment
 Create a series of Storyboards for your
movie project: Must include
 Sketches of the scene with shot numbers.
 Description of each shot. (Close-up, Long shot . . .)
 Camera Angle (Aerial, eye level, etc.)
 Write the descriptions in the smaller box within the
frame. Draw the shot in larger box.
 Brief Description of Action/Dialogue
 Duration of shot. (seconds)
 Every shot of your film must be storyboaded.
 I’ll randomly select 10 frames to evaluate. Each
frame/description will be worth 10 pts. 100pts
total.
Our storyboard template

The following slides contain a sample storyboard using a slightly different


template but you should understand just what a storyboard is by viewing it.
1st Day for New Teacher, pg 1
1st Day for New Teacher, pg 2
Complete storyboards for full
film project are due on
Wednesday, March 5 . th

Movies are due March 10th.

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