Storyboard

 

Storyboarding

 

Storyboarding has been a fun concept that I have enjoyed bringing to live and visualizing on a paper. It has changed some of my ideas for the better, and it has also given me more ideas (one being the second) which could be implemented into an actual project. Thanks to storyboarding I feel now much more comfortable with my project, and I am very excited to try to give birth to this scene, even though it may propose difficulty in a world suffering from a pandemic.

There have been other issues I have faced with storyboarding. One being a way to give visual representation to the shots described in each column. I feel like my art ‘skills’ just simply don’t do enough justice to the work. That asides, I did enjoy still drawing the images, even if I were struggling, and gave me a clear image of how I would visualize the movie instead of just picturing it.

Drawing was one element I enjoyed in the storyboard, but another one could be considered the shots, angles, and/or camera movements. As it allowed me to easily find a creative way in the first and second shot to work on these aspects, while also keeping the main theme of the movie. This exercise has opened my eyes and allowed me to learn that not only there are many opportunities in the world of movies, but there are also many ways in which you can create these movies, giving almost endless possibilities to creating a movie. There is no “bad” movie out there. Every movie can be a good movie, but it needs (in my eyes) to be able to show good use of these skills to be able to succeed, regardless of the story.

James M. Higgins shows on his article Storyboard your way to success shows the many ways in which storyboards can be used to create unique and creative concepts. Without a good plan or storyboard to be able to think through the many factors, such as types of camera angles or more, your movie will not probably do so hot. Even Walt Disney used (after inventing) the storyboards. Which was then adapted over decades until Now. Annemaree O’ Brien also shows another important thing to keep in mind, other than just doing storyboards, which is ‘recounting’ the storyboard once you have it ready, on her article Filmmaking across the curriculum: a beginner’s guide. With these in mind, I have tried to make my storyboard as best as possible, and even reworked the second shot today.

With the adaptation of these skills, changing my simple idea of a car crash reveal, to a creative real life to news station warp camera movement is one of the many things I could continue to improve my storyboard. I am very excited to continue with this project and update more on this opening scene as we move along.

 

Storyboard so far: