This post is the storyboard for our 5 minute short. Each drawing is an idea of how each of our shots will look throughout the 3 scenes of our film. The next post will be our film's animatic which is the drawings from our storyboard put into motion with soundtrack and sound recordings of our actors reading their lines.
Storyboard Research:
Storyboards are a time-consuming process that takes weeks to do properly, especially for those million dollar films out there which could have other a thousand shots (much more) for their entire film. For our film we only have five minutes and so our storyboard isn't as long as some of those of real feature films. Storyboards allow any improvements to be made to the film before it begins to be produced, any problems can be found out much easier on the paper and if there are any new ideas new shots could be added in or old shots taken out to create the perfect film.
For more research on Storyboards again you can check out my AS media blog where I did a little more research: Jarlinc's storyboard for "Shadowed".
Storyboard Conventions:
- The Scene Number: This is needed to sum up exactly which part of the film the shot is in. Within our film "Behind Closed Doors" there are three scenes altogether and so having those scene numbers in allowed us to quickly figure out where each scene belongs. It stops any confusion from happening also.
- The Shot Number: This section of the storyboard is important because it tells us exactly which shot it is: near the beginning, near the end etc, instead of having to name every single shot. It makes things a lot quicker and easier for when we do our animatic also because if you have loads of shots (films will have thousands) numbering each one is vital to keep track of them.
- The Shot Type: The shot type displays how the shot will be portrayed in the film, whether its a mid shot or a close up etc. This is shown in the drawings of the story board and is often wrote underneath as well.
- The Drawings of the Scene: These drawings allow the producer to see what the film entails way before production/filming properly starts. The drawings allow your film idea to come alive on the page and you are able to see if something works or needs improving or completely changing.
- The Camera Movements: Camera Movements refers to such things like panning, tracking shots, tilts etc and is often displayed as an arrow on the drawing or written underneath the box as a little reminder type thing. You would use the camera movements on a storyboard if you want to show that the camera will be tilting to follow somebody bending down for example.
- The Extra Details: The details box is where you can put a very brief sentence or two about what y that particular shot includes so that any drawings the producer or production team cannot understand, they have the writing underneath to refer back to.
Next on my blog I will be posting my animatic for Behind Closed Doors.
