From the course: Creating a Short Film: 03 Pre-Production
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Creating storyboards
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 03 Pre-Production
Creating storyboards
- [Voiceover] In the last tutorial we created shot diagrams using Shot Designer, but this aerial view is an unemotional schematic about where to roughly put the camera, it doesn't really take into account the composition of the frame, you know, the composition of the framing of subjects and the relationship of the background, the lens choice and the difference that that makes in the foreground and the background, and so on. And all that stuff is really a huge part of filming. So oftentimes filmmakers will create sketches of what the camera will actually see as a guide for working on set. And these sketches are called storyboards. Now I didn't have the time to create storyboards for anything for the main production date. But after shooting we wrote a new scene, which we called scene 7B, and actually did have the time to storyboard that one. Now these are the drawings that I made before we shot that, and they're obviously really crude, but they still served as a helpful reference on…
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