Wednesday 7 December 2016

What is a storyboard?

A storyboard is an animated plan, a way of figuring out the story of the film before actually starting to shot. Basically, it's the story of the movie drawn in pictures, by hand or digitally, very much like a comic strip. 

While story boarding you have to ask yourself two questions:
1) What is happening in the shot?
2) What is the best way to show it?

A video from YouTube, which clearly explains the purposes of story boarding.


Story boarding is extremely helpful as it saves you both time and money on the filming day, as you already know what are you doing and how are you doing it. Moreover, it's very important during editing as you have a clear order of shots, one after another, so your editor doesn't feel confused and doesn't "invent" anything, so the outcome matches your expectations.

Examples of the story boards:

hand drawn.

digital.

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