Creative Storyboarding: Essential Pre-Production Steps for Visualizing Your Project
Discover the crucial steps in the pre-production phase, from originating concepts to storyboarding, hiring staff, and scouting locations. Learn how to effectively plan and visualize your project before entering the studio or shooting on location.
Creative Storyboarding: Essential Pre-Production Steps for Visualizing Your Project
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Pre-Production • Phase 1: Conception and prep-work
Quick Thought • Think of a time in your life where you needed a game plan, playbook, or strategy to accomplish a goal.
Pre-Production • Pre-Production is everything that takes place before you go into a studio, or on location to shoot a project. • EVERYTHING, is pre-conceived. There is no such thing as “winging it” on set.
Pre-Production • Originating concept • Writing script • Storyboards • Hiring staff - Director, cinematographer, gaffer, grips, PA’s, even actresses and actors. • Scouting locations • Building sets • Costumes, props, makeup
Storyboards • A series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing movies, animations, commercials, or any other type of interactive media. • The script is finished and the storyboards help the director place the camera.
Storyboards • Walt Disney is credited with the conception of Storyboards
Quarterly Assessment • For our quarterly assessment, we will work in groups to complete a short video based around a pre-determined scenario, and required shot types. • Pre-production planning • Well constructed shot composition • Rule of thirds • Continuity • Tight edits
Pre-Production • So we have our concept. How do we put it in motion? A student is sitting in their classroom and gets called by the principal over the loudspeaker to meet him at the front desk. The student nervously gets a pass from the teacher and leaves. Along the way, the student must have a conversation with a friend, stop at the water fountain, and go down a flight of stairs. When they get to front desk, their nervousness goes away and lunch is waiting for them.
Getting Started • Storyboard shots as a group • Casting (assign actors/actresses) • Choose a director • Production Meeting w/ Mr. Leonard
Groups • Will turn in • 1 set of storyboards • 1 final product • 4 Project Assessment Worksheets