Storyboarding

Tuesday's lesson this week was an introduction to storyboards. These are very important as they are the backbone for and story and are necessary for any successful film or video. They map out every separate shot and say what type of shot it is (e.g. close up, mid-shot), if the shot is at an angle (low angle, above shot), if the camera moves during the shot or pans/ tilts, if there is any zoom, what happens in the shot, if there are any sounds needed and how long the shot lasts. This means you save a lot of time out on location filming.

Storyboards also let you pre-plan the story and allow you to easily write down any ideas you have. Storyboards are done before filming but for practice in the lesson we looked at a short clip and storyboarded that.

Luther, S03 E01

My storyboards: