Storyboarding Basics

Read this explanation of Storyboarding Basics which includes a lot of important vocabulary about camera shots and angles. You need to be able to speak this language. You are a director now! 😉

http://www.brianlemay.com/Pages/animationschool/storyboarding/storyboarding%20basics.html

Selecting Camera Shots

This is an interesting discussion that gets into the kinds of decisions you’ll be making before doing your animation. He even discusses the pay for storyboarding, etc. Real life stuff. Cool!

http://www.brianlemay.com/Pages/animationschool/storyboarding/Shotselection.html

Photoshop Storyboarding Template

You’ll be drawing on the layer called Panels. Make a folder and name it something like storyboard_projectname where projectname is the actual name of your project. Then, inside that folder, just save a new Photoshop file for each page.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cuda1l8nc526zh/16_9_aspect_ah2010_1.77storyboard.psd?dl=0

Be sure to ramp up the drama/emotion by imagining the best camera angles, the best shot composition, the best camera actions. You can review those in the article at the top of this page.  Label your storyboard with these concepts to get across your ideas.

• A shot consists of a single take, which can be several seconds or several minutes long.
• A scene is composed of several shots, while a sequence is composed of scenes.
• Narrative films are composed of sequences.

Storyboard Practice

11 seconds from Wonder Woman film. Use the Photoshop file to storyboard it. Sketch very loosely (bad quality) and then label the shot types and camera actions…