Storyboarding OUDF404 Studio brief 1

As my ideas was coming together i thought i should start a story board in order to know what order the shots should go in and what camera angles would be needed. I started this by researching how to create storyboards.

A storyboard is a sequence of images presenting a story in motion, It is created using the main scenes to tell the story and present the camera angles. Storyboarding is widely known for being developed at the Walt Disney studios in the 1930's but may have been created earlier than that but the storyboards have been lost due to time passing. Diane Disney Miller has said that the first storyboard created was for the 3 little pigs in 1933.

Example

Walt Disney Storyboard

The advantages of using storyboards is that it allows you to know what scene is going to happen next and what is happening in the scene. This is especially useful when filming as you will have more understanding of what will happen.
There are many ways of creating a storyboard, the most common way is by pen or pencil. But if you don't like to draw you can also take photographs, use a computer by collecting images or you can even just cut out pictures from magazines. Storyboards can be very basic all they have to do is tell the story they don't have to be a masterpiece.

Example 

I really like Tom Cranham's scoreboards as they are very detailed a present the story very well. Some the films he has storyboarded include; Jungle2Jungle, The River Wild, Gleaming The Cube, King Kong Lives and Maximum Overdrive.

Tom Cranham 

After all this research I decided to do my storyboard;

1minute storyboard.

Animatic 

In films they usually creative an animatic before filming in order to get the gist of what will happen. This is a series of images put together to see how the scene will look and feel. This allows animators/ directors to work out screenplay, camera positions, timing and shot list. Sometime storyboards are just animated with simple zooms and pans to show camera movement. Animatic are often used in advertisements and music videos. 

Animatic is used in the Gorillaz Dirty Harry video. I really like hoe they have just created an extremely simple but affective animation.

To help me create my minute film i created a animatic only using the images from my storyboard together just to get and idea of the flow.

I wanted to make it very simple just so i can see how the shots would work next to each other.

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