Storyboarding
What is a storyboard? Why do you need it for a film? Storyboards are a huge part of the pre-production phase of making a film come alive. You don’t have to be a fancy artist or filmmaker to create a storyboard, but you do have to have a concept of the movie script to create one. You see a storyboard is a layout of each scene of the script. A storyboard is a visual of every scene in the movie. It allows the director, the camera guy, and even the actor to know what is expected in every scene. Camera angle, what the action will be in the scene, pan left, static shot, what the action will be in the scene, etc. When you think of the movie script you can’t see the various scenes on paper, until you turn to the storyboard where the visualized scenes appear like magic. The storyboard shows the type of shot (single, close-up, far away, etc.) what the character movement will be, the camera movement will be if there is a voiceover in the shot, what the camera placement will be, th...