Storyboards

During the Pre Production Stages of planning your film, one of the most important stages is the essential element of creating a Storyboard. Very similar to a Comic book strip this version of your script helps film Directors, Cinematographers, Animators, Editors and others involved in the project visualise the final product whilst also preventing any potential problems by finding and fixing them before they occur during Production.

Made up of a number of squares usually of either hand drawn or computer illustrations representing each shot as if it would be seen through a camera lens, a Storyboard is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold, shot by shot with the inclusion of arrows or instructions (that indicate simple camera movements) like zooms and pans and most importantly notes about what's going on in the scene including the Action, Sound, Location, Lighting, the Timing and occasionally the Dialogue said during the shot.

Whilst creating Storyboards might be very time consuming and intricate in the Pre Production stages, by estimating the cost of the project in the long run Storyboards will save you a lot of time and money in the overall production as it organises and pre prepares your day when filming.

FAMOUS STORYBOARDS:

               STAR WARS         PSYCHO             JURASSIC PARK 

                                  Storyboard Artist:                      Storyboard Artist:                                      Storyboard Artist:

                                 Joe Johnston (1977)                       Saul Bass (1960)                                      David Lowery (1993)

             

THE AVENGERS 

Storyboard Artist:

Jane Wu (2012)

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES 

Storyboard Artist: 

Gabriel Hardman

The Storyboarding process, as it is known today, was developed by Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s.

In the 1920s the first storyboards created at Disney developed from comic-book like sketches to illustrate their ideas for animated cartoons such as the much loved official mascot of The Walt Disney Company created in 1928: Mickey Mouse.

By 1937 or 1938, all American animation studios were using storyboards. 

In computer animation, Storyboarding minimises the animated construction of unnecessary backgrounds or scene elements for the shot just like as it helps live-action filmmakers to calculate which proportions of their set are not needed to be constructed as that segment will never make it into the camera frame preventing wasting valuable time and money in the stages of Post production.

FROZEN (2013)

BRAVE (2012)

'Gone with the Wind' (1939) was one of the first live action films ever to be completely Storyboarded.

William Cameron Menzies designed every single Storyboard of the film.

By creating a Storyboard for our Thriller 'DAMMIA'  I feel it will help every member of the group to visualise together our Scene outline and to also make sure everyone is in agreement helping us to alter and assemble our final version of our completed Opening Scene outline.