Video: How to Storyboard a Movie

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Need to learn how to storyboard your Indie film project? Learn how with tips from an expert for directors in this free filmmaking video.

- How to Storyboard a Movie

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Ijjada Jun 30, 2011
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Adam May 21, 2011
What a terribly ill planned video. Your video is about planning so why haven't you planned. If you had you would have obtained a black marker pen for the guy to draw his storyboard with and written a script.
evuser3943 Aug 02, 2008
Hello. Your video was great. I have been looking around for an exciting art career I could pursue in the film industry. I would love to be a story board artist, and join the cast on a movie set to help make an awesome movie. The thing is, how would I even start to land a job like that? where can I start? I was also thinking of becoming a graphic artist, but again I have no clue how I could be part of a movie crew, any suggestions? - thanks, sarah. - thanks sarah
evuser3943 Aug 02, 2008
Hello. Your video was great. I have been looking around for an exciting art career I could pursue in the film industry. I would love to be a story board artist, and join the cast on a movie set to help make an awesome movie. The thing is, how would I even start to land a job like that? where can I start? I was also thinking of becoming a graphic artist, but again I have no clue how I could be part of a movie crew, any suggestions? - thanks, sarah. - thanks sarah

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.

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How to Storyboard a Movie

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