What is a storyboard? (Miss Begum)

What is a Storyboard? - The role of the storyboard in a TV or movie production - A storyboard is a plan, a way of figuring out the story of the film before you put in the enormous amount of work of the animation itself. Basically, it is the story of the movie drawn in pictures, very much like a comic strip.

1. The Storyboard as a production tool? - What you need to consider when drawing a storyboard, is who is going to use it, and how. This piece of paper is a working document. It passes many hands during production, and each professional will need to understand different things from it. Let's see just what a storyboard is for each person in the production: 2. The Director? - First of all, the director sits with the story-artiste to figure out the story itself, and the cinematic language. - They take the script and turn it into visual sequences. Attached to each pane you'll usually find a description of the camera (close-up, long shot, pan left, etc.,), the relevant piece of dialogue, and sometimes a verbal description of the action in the scene. A storyboard alone is hard to time. A very likely next step is to put the panes on a timeline and turn them into a video board ("animatique"), with a guide soundtrack. I'll discuss video boards in another article, though, let's just stick to paper here. - Once the director manages to show and tell the story on paper, the storyboard starts traveling thru the production pipeline: 3. Designers? – Designers break it down to which characters they need to design, and make a list of props, backgrounds and anything else that needs to be drawn or modelled.

4. Characters? - Girl - Dad - Close-up of dad's hand (This sort of thing is very important! A body part shown in close-up is usually a different rig or design in animation.) - Props’ book - The same book- opens - The book - close up with the show's logo (title) on it - Backgrounds: - Library - Street - Bedroom What makes a thriller specific storyboard? - The specific type of elements that are used to makes a thriller specific storyboard. For example in the lighting it plays a big part in the hole story board to make the back ground look scary, there would be a great amount of low-key lighting being used to represent the powerful scenes. - The setting castoff could also transmit to a thriller such as a haunted house or an open alley-way. The length could also transmit to the thriller genre, if there was an attack being implied through the storyboard, the length of the frame would be longer than a frame without an attack taking place. It would be displayed as being more in depth and more moving for the audience to watch, this also can draw their attention to be more scared. - In the example, we can see a thriller specific storyboard that has been created.

- My conclusion, I’ve now learned what a storyboard is and what their purpose is when making a film. Additionally, I’ve focused on thriller specific storyboards which include essentials that are used just for this specific genre. Understanding the thriller specific storyboarding essentials has been a great help to me in creating my own storyboard, I now know what is required to develop my own story board.