3. This week
You will be learning about storyboarding
techniques before applying them to
create your own storyboard.
You could also begin to understand the
role a storyboard plays in a successful
production
4. By the end of today, you
MUST be able to identify the information
required to create a storyboard
SHOULD be able to use illustration
techniques to begin creating a
storyboard for your music video
COULD explain the importance of
storyboards to planning and production.
6. What is a storyboard?
It is a plan of the film,
shot by shot, in
drawings.
Each frame of the
storyboard is a
different shot.
The whole video will
be storyboarded out
before filming.
8. What do we use storyboards for?
The director and cinematographer will
use them to plan
• Plan how each shot will look
(called composition or framing)
• Plan how the sequence of shots
will flow.
• Plan what audio we might need
9. Working in pairs
Annotate on the storyboard in front of
you what information the artist is giving
you.
You have 2 minutes.
19. When do we create storyboards?
Storyboards are part of our
pre-production planning as
we will need them on set.
20. Who needs storyboards on set
- Director
- Assistant Director (1st AD)
- Director Of Photography (also
known as a cinematographer)
- Camera operator
- Lighting technician
22. Director / Assistant Director
To check that the camera operators have
framed each shot in the way they want and
to check that they don’t miss any shots out
during filming.
28. Lighting Technician
Lighting technicians will
have to recreate
specific lighting styles to
maintain continuity (or
for effect) so it helps to
have a visual aid of how
the lighting of each shot
is meant to look.
29. Task
You will need to create a storyboard for
you short film.
Using the template on Moodle begin to
draw your storyboards.
What information do you need to
communicate to the viewer?