Story Boarding

Firstly what is Story Boarding?

Story Boarding is when the director of a media product either gets someone to sketch up / creates a rough sketch by his/her self on how the 'film' is going to work. they sketch in a rectangular box that represents what the camera will see and also the size of the box will be defined by the aspect ratio the DOP decides to shoot the movie in for example wide 16:9 or ultra-wide 21:9.It is useful to story board as it helps cinematographer to see what the director wants in his shot for example a shallow depth of field and the framing of the characters of the film. In these rectangles arrows are used in and around the boxes to imply camera movement, for example zooming in on a subject coming from the left and panning round to the right, all these movements can be shown with simple arrows. However storyboards don't all have to be drawn some can be created on a computer and some can use stop motion animation.

Story Boarding will be useful while creating our film trailer as it will allow us to get familiar with all the shots we need to capture before we even get to the locations where we will be filming. We will also use a story board when we are editing as it is a visual representation of events taking place and what order these events take place in. We will also find story boarding useful as we can pre determine framing of subjects and establishing shots, how low or high the camera is and also panning movements.

Below is some of our example work from our workshop with Dan.