Using Storyboards in Indie Filmmaking

Video Transcript

"Hello, I’m Corey Turner here on behalf of Expert Village.com and today we are talking about low budget movie making. You also want to look at what are your shots going to be? How are you going to set up the camera? Right now in your head you have a number of how many days it is going to take you to shoot this picture. Let me tell you this, it’s probably best to at least double that. I did shoot my first movie in 14 days and we went and we moved. A lot of times I had to take shots that may not have been as good as I wanted but I had to get them because of the timing. What allowed us to be able to do that many camera angles in that short of time was by doing well, a storyboard by scripting our where the cameras were going to be. Because I did not bring my camera on my first movie I actually had a DP, Director of Photography, I wanted to make sure he knew where he needed to be for each shot. This here is an extensive storyboard from a friend of mine. He has gone through and laid out every shot, every camera angle and every time the camera was going to be. That way when he finished the shot the people moving the camera knew exactly by checking on their chart where they needed to go, while he was working with the actors and cameras were set up and ready to fly. The picture here shows the shots. They show what the camera is going to be seeing and this has dialogue on the bottom that describes that the characters are running away from the screen and climbing on top of the cars gives us an idea of everything that needs to be laid out. That way when you show up on set you already know. You’ve already been to the location, you know what you need. So, storyboarding is very important. "