pre production 3

Pre-Production 3: Scripting and Storyboarding

SJSJ Grade 8 Technology ClassMarch 2012

Planning Your Transitions

• Bars • Checkerboard• DirectX Media Wipe • Dissolve • Fade • Iris • Pixelate• SMPTE Wipe• Wheel

• Blur Effect• Brightness Effect• Fade Effect• Film Aging Effect• Filter Effects• Mirror and Grayscale

Effects• Pixelate Effect• Speed Effects

Planning Your Audio• Direct sound– Live sound. – Not always ideal

• Studio sound – Recorded in studio – Improve sound quality – Eliminating ambient

sound– Dubbed dialogue – Can be mixed with live

environmental sound

• Selective Sound– Add or remove sound– Ex: ticking bomb

• Sound Bridge– Continue across cut– Use for continuity

• Dubbed dialogue• Wildtrack (asynchronous)– Deliberately recorded

separately from scene and then added

Scripting vs. Storyboarding

• Script:– Written text of a stage play,

screenplay or broadcast

• Storyboard– Series of panels on which a

set of sketches is arranged to depict the important changes of scene and action in a series of shots

– A visual script

Considerations

• Your Audience– Students? Parents? Young

Children? Other?

• Length of Film

• Message– Persuasive? Informative?

Entertaining?

Scripting

• The dialogue and narration• The action• The talent• The scene and setting• The sound effects and music• The graphics and credits• The special props

Use the Script to

• Coordinate location shots and plan sets• Choose the actors and actresses• Decide on props, graphics, sound effects

and music • Assign production crew tasks

Why Storyboard?

• Brainstorm ideas• Visualize finished product• Save time• Plan camera and sound (Production)• Plan edits (Post Production)• Keep everyone on the same page• Spot opportunities for camera shots

What to Include in Storyboard

• Timing for each scene• Who will appear in each scene?• Camera Shots (Close up, two shot, wide, POV, etc)• Camera Movement (Pan, tilt, zoom, etc)• Lighting• Cuts and effects between scenes• Music and sound effects• Any special effects?• Number scenes and sections of storyboard

Keep in Mind the 5 W’s

• Who?• What?• Where?• When?• Why?

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Points to Remember

• Storyboards don’t have to be perfect• Use simple sketches—stick figures, circles, lines,

etc.• You may use a graphics drawing program or

other application• Just depict major scenes.

What’s Next

• Individual Storyboards• Team collaborates to create a script, storyboard

and pitches to have it produced

Questions?