Steve Nelson: Hey, I am Steve Nelson and you are watching 4 Minute Film School, sure will I get four minutes to teach you a lesson on film making. It is going to be the best or worst four minutes of your life, but that depends on how you look at things. Today we are going to be covering storyboards, so start the clock. The idea of the storyboarding was conceived and first implemented by Webb Smith, who was subsequently murdered by Samuel K's storyboard. Storyboard has take out many roles in the professional film industry and maybe done by the production designer, director, director of photography, cinematographer or a hired storyboard artist.
For our purposes though, you will be the one doing the storyboard for your own movies, otherwise you probably wouldn't be watching this video anyway. There are tons of different ways to go about storyboarding. To start it off, we will take a look at the original form invented by Webb Smith. This process is basically consisted of drawing out your images and writing down any dialogue of action notes that you think should be included. You can download this free template made for you guys by going to this link.
Just print copies out and draw or if you care about our planet making it to a right build five billion, you can just download them and draw them using the program of your choice. If you are working with the team, use posted notes on a board and write underneath them with erasable marker. This way you can move things around and a team can fill out ideas which can be easily visualized and then the guy who came up with the stupid idea can be easily asked to leave.
If your local school won't let you use the dry raceboard, remind them that you are a student and this a project that might get you into college or if you are out of college, dropped out or just staying in your hometown or whatever, remind them that you are a tax payer and then all the money that the IRS steals from you, knows the pay for the dry raceboard. And if they end up kicking you out and you are not allowed to use it, you can buy a poster board to put your poster note and that will work.
This style of storyboarding is generally used to visualize their shots, look at the project as a whole and really make a decision on the order of events but if you are looking for a modern debt storyboard, there is other option. Every day your finger makes countless selfish clicks, how about a couple for your friends? Share any mobile, it is as easy as, one, two, three and then you can get back to whatever else of what you were doing. To get a good destination on the life of your project and to hear what your soundtrack will eventually sound like, you can do a video storyboard.
Once you have finished the other storyboard, we are talking about take the images that you do, stand them into your computer and place them in the right order, then record a rough audio track of the dialogue and whether it is women characters, some males characters, just do all the voices yourself for it. So you can get an idea of how long ever your scene is going to be. Add some sound effects and some music and you will have a pretty complete skeleton of what your final product is going to look like. And now we have got some tips from the Indimobile forum members.
Speaker: Try and write your film to accommodate, set out some props and locations that you have access to, overwhelmed for that films, if you are looking to write a scene on it. This will make the film infinitely more interesting to people who don't see locations often and then will give your film more personal edge and make you leave your mark on this genre.
Speaker: When you start writing to your film, make sure you don't overload yourself with work because it becomes too ordinary. It is pretty boring.
Steve Nelson: The most important thing is that you make a storyboard for your next movie, because even if it is a chicken scratch, it will save you both time and money and the time you are going to save is both while you are shooting on location with actors and everything. You won't be having to plan out your shots and then the editing phase, because everything will be laid out in front you already and you will know what to do with the footage and if you haven't watched our episode on shot composition, I would recommend doing that because there are lots of great tips in it that you will be able to apply to your storyboards to make a much more fluid piece. Alright everybody let us kind of wrap this week's edition of 4 Minute Film School, don't forget to head over to the forums to get involved in next week's episode, bye.
