Pre Production - Writing Storyboards

Writing Storyboards

For my storyboard I will be creating two versions to better understand the structure of the scenes in the music video.

I’ll be using a traditional storyboard, using drawing to illustration shots with key details under the drawing. When doing the traditional storyboarding ill be trying to integrate a method that is used to frame shots called “The rule of third’s”. This is a three by three grid that is placed over the frame of a shot to split the images into sections within these sections. This gird allows the areas that need to be filled up, allowing a director to maximize his frames, filling each area with a character or a prop. Without this grid shots can look messy and things can look misplaced.

For my second method of storyboarding ill be using a program called “Shot designer”, which allows me to construct a scene from a birds eye view. In working from a birds eye view it can allow me to construct the environment around what ever is in the frame, this can be sued to place characters, show their paths, show items and things around them. With the program I can also use it to place where cameras and lighting can go, meaning that I can place the equipment that I want to use as well down.

Using both of these storyboard methods will greater improve how I see the areas that I film in, also what I want inside and outside the frame. Below are both my more traditional storyboarding and my storyboard on “Shot Designer”.