Blog 11-Storyboard

A storyboard is a shot by shot plan of the production you are going to make. It should include descriptions of the action, actors, time, extras, shot type, shot number, camera movement, audio and dialogue. It enables you to visulise all of the shots that are going to be in the production (film/music video). When filming, everyone should have a copy of the storyboard, for example, the director, the actors, the extras and the operators of sound, light etc. A storyboard can be shown through images, sketches or photographs. However "stick/pin-men" shouldnt really be used if you are drawing the shots as it is hard to tell the action well so most storyboards use photographs which my group have decided to use as well. You should look at the composition of the images as well to see how they would work in the actual filming. A "recee" is where the prodcution team go around possible locations and settings to see what and where would be best to use for the filming, this should be done before filming and making the storyboard. Common mistakes that could occur are such things as aspect ration (the framing of the shot), you can get the standard ratio or widescreen. My group and I choose standard as we found that researching lady gaga's videos, she doesnt use much wide-screen shots. Another mistake is that the storyboard doesnt contain enough shots therefore when starting filming, you could become stuck with what to do. A storyboard should contain to less than 24 shots so my group and I did 38 shots in our storyboard so that we had variety and knew exactly what we needed to film.