How to Storyboard a Movie

Video Transcript

"Rhett Reiger with White Caspian, on behalf of Expert Village. Talking about Story Boards, if you have to show or you have to film a shot of somebody walking across the screen to another object, you're going to show in a quick sketch, basically where their body is going to begin, like this. I'm just going to do stick figures for now just for time's sake. And then you want to show the direction of where they're going, and let's say they're going to an object on the other side of the room or going to meet another person. So what you're basically saying is in the first few shots, we're going to be filming this individual, this actor walking. In a subsequent shot we're going to show this actor still about the same place in the frame of the movie, or of the camera, but now maybe he is actually approaching and you're getting a shot of the next person, who's maybe half into the frame. So you're showing how they're getting closer. This would be this guy heading that way, this person is looking that way. O.k., and let's say they're two people, two lovers going to embrace. So the last final footage or shot is going to be the two individuals like this, face to face, together. And, so basically what you're doing, and this is a very, very simplified version of what, a, Storyboarding, because they get very complicated. But this shows the camera crew, it shows the Director, shows the actors basically what we're trying to accomplish. This saves so many things, because it saves the Director trying to explain to the DP, the Director of Photography, exactly what he wants in a shot, or how he doesn't want it."