Post by nigel on May 10, 2005 14:33:27 GMT -5
Any small-time filmaker is insane if they don't storyboard before production.
The first thing I hear from guys is the old "I don't know how to draw". Steven Spielberg can't draw either and when I visited the J-Park set I talked to the board artist...and there were these post-its with little stick men on it. Steven boarded the next weeks shots using stick men. Now the board artist made them look pretty, but you could have shot the thing with the stick men. The purpose of boarding is to do a pre-edit in your head...it WILL save you time and make a clearer, better flow of action.
I draw a 2 inch by three inch rectangles on a piece of paper and photocopy it 9 times, pasting three rows of 3 panels on one 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. YOu can number the scenes to make a shot list. Cut n paste panels if you make changes.
Draw stickmen (or draw better if you are a master artist like me) and try to consolidate shots. You don't have to board obvious sequences if you want, but I tend to over board everything, even repeat set-ups. I've even video-taped my boards with me doing all of the dialogue to see how long my short would be. It works.
Before I board, I do thumbnails. That's when I print out my script and draw little one inch squares in the boarders right next to the scene changes and dialogue. I do little stick men and blow down basic lighting. These thumbnails might be enough for you as storyboards or you can do the big version above if you need other crew members to look at them.
When I direct a set and we have boards I look like I know what I'm doing. I know exactly where the camera should be and I always know what shot I'm working on.
Check out Evil Dead 2 behind the scene Sam Raimis drawing OMG thats all ill say. But then again he did spider man lol.
Be a man...storyboard.
The first thing I hear from guys is the old "I don't know how to draw". Steven Spielberg can't draw either and when I visited the J-Park set I talked to the board artist...and there were these post-its with little stick men on it. Steven boarded the next weeks shots using stick men. Now the board artist made them look pretty, but you could have shot the thing with the stick men. The purpose of boarding is to do a pre-edit in your head...it WILL save you time and make a clearer, better flow of action.
I draw a 2 inch by three inch rectangles on a piece of paper and photocopy it 9 times, pasting three rows of 3 panels on one 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. YOu can number the scenes to make a shot list. Cut n paste panels if you make changes.
Draw stickmen (or draw better if you are a master artist like me) and try to consolidate shots. You don't have to board obvious sequences if you want, but I tend to over board everything, even repeat set-ups. I've even video-taped my boards with me doing all of the dialogue to see how long my short would be. It works.
Before I board, I do thumbnails. That's when I print out my script and draw little one inch squares in the boarders right next to the scene changes and dialogue. I do little stick men and blow down basic lighting. These thumbnails might be enough for you as storyboards or you can do the big version above if you need other crew members to look at them.
When I direct a set and we have boards I look like I know what I'm doing. I know exactly where the camera should be and I always know what shot I'm working on.
Check out Evil Dead 2 behind the scene Sam Raimis drawing OMG thats all ill say. But then again he did spider man lol.
Be a man...storyboard.
