Storyboards

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Storyboards
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Activity

• 1. Determine more or less how many and which
  scenes you will shoot (film.) In this step you
  will make decisions about plot, resolving all
  issue regarding what will occur and how it will
  occur.
• Example The bus station scene (and what happens
  there), the taxi scene (and what happens there),
  the bar scene (and what happens there), the
  arrival at the house(), inside the house(), the
  bathroom scene(), the attack and the scream(),
  the gardener suspects something outside scene(),
  the gardener breaks into the house scene(), the
  rescue scene(), resolution scene(), synopsis
  scene().
• 2. Number the scenes in order of their
  occurrence. Make a second copy of this list.
• 3. Divide the team into four groups Artists,
  writers, costumes and props, equipment and
  logistics. For artists, artistic ability is not
  a requirement. For writers, one writer would be
  ideal. Two maximum. The rest of the students
  should participate in storyboard drawing. (The
  teacher will help the writers with
  dialogue/natural language)

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• 4. For 30 evidencias, each team member must
  prepare one of the following
• A. The artists will draw storyboards for the
  most important shots of each scene. (Two to
  three storyboards per scene minimum) This work
  should be done by hand.
• B. The writers will select three or four scenes
  with important dialogue that cannot be improvised
  and they will begin writing dialogue for those
  scenes. (Depending on the length of the story
  and time available, you may be asked to write
  dialogue for the rest of the scenes as well.) You
  may print everything in black and white, burn it
  to a disk, or save it to a reformatted USB drive.

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• C. Costumes and props. Collect all costumes and
  props that you will use in the production and
  take photos of them. You may print everything in
  black and white, burn the photos to a disk, or
  save them on a reformatted USB drive.
• D. Editors, cameramen, equipment and logistics
  people Take photos of the video camera and
  editing equipment (Macbook, etc) that you will
  use including tripods and lighting if available.
  In a document, describe the locations where you
  will film and the dates on which you plan to
  film. Tell who will provide transportation. You
  may print everything in black and white, burn it
  to a disk, or save it to a reformatted USB drive.

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• The notes that are written below each frame
  should contain some or all of the following
• Frame number ("John runs past then he exits
  frame right")
• Camera Action instructions ("No pan") See page
  87 and 88
• Take Duration of the shot in seconds.
• Dialogue ("JOHN Come back here with that map!")
• Other audio ("SFX bullet ricochet")
• Visual effects ("Use black and white") See
  page 88
• Dialogue. (Ill get you, you dirty rat!)
• Note The type of shot (long shot, big close up,
  etc.) does not need to be mentioned as that (the
  image shown on film) is what is drawn. The
  teacher may ask you to identify the shots later
  as a review activity.

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Camera Movements

• 1. panning
• 2. tilt up
• 3. tilt down
• 4. Straight shot
• 5. High angle shot
• 6. horizontal movement
• 7. vertical movement
• 8. on a dolly
• 9. shoulder-mounted or hand-held.

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Lens Movements and Camera Effects

• Black out black screen appears. Used to
  separate scenes.
• Fade out progressive darkening of the image
  until it is completely black.
• Fade in starting dark, the images appears
  gradually
• Dissolve the image disappears little by little
  until it gradually becomes another image
• Flashback Simulates a memory of past events by
  using fuzzy, blurry images or black and white.
• Editing The joining of images to simulate
  continuity
• Montage or parallel takeJoins two scenes,
  alternating between the two.

• Lens Movements
• Zoom in sensation of getting closer
• Zoom out sensation of getting farther away
• Effects
• Outside voice indicates that the person
  speaking does not appear in the shot
• Subjective camera Simulates the field of vision
  of the subject what he is seeing.

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Indicate subject movement with arrows in the
frame. Show zooms by sketching the wide-angle
position, drawing a box around the telephoto
position within it and adding diagonal arrows to
show whether the movement is in or out.
For pans or tilts between two distinct
compositions, show each one as a separate frame,
with an arrow between frames to link them.