What Is Story Boarding?

 Story Boarding 

Today we learnt about story boarding as we will need to create a story board for our opening sequence.

Story boarding is important for pre-production g because it puts everyone on the same page and have the same idea of the outcome. Story boarding is an easy way to share your vision, and used as a communication tool from the director to crew (DOP, Camera Operator etc). This process helps the studio save money. On filming days It is a lot quicker to have your shots planned out, this means less hire time for studios, equipment etc because everyone knows what they are doing, where shots are and in what order. You can spend infinite time on a story board, you can't spend infinite amount of filming as you are paying actors, crew and space. It allows the creatives to have time to be experimental.

Story boarding also helps in post - production such as editing. The story board gives the editor a guide line to follow. This makes it easier for them as they probably have hours of footage to sort through. 

We were reminded of filming techniques we learnt about last week to make our film visually interesting, such as:

- Rules of thirds 

- Foreground, Background

- Symmetry / Asymmetry 

- Editing 

- 180 degree rule

On the information side, you should included the following details:

-Shot number (always done last)

- Location

- Action 

- Shot/movement

- Sound 

- Lighting 

- Transition 

- Timing