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VISUAL NARRATIVE IN DESIGN
STORYBOARDS
“Show, don’t tell !” Ansen Dibell
Storyboard is the visual script!
In big productions, it is created by a storyboard artist. Level of cooperation between the director and the SB artist varies. Directors with a strong visual sense are highly involved in the
creation of storyboards:
Hitchcock (art director background…pioneer of movie designers) Spielberg (SB enables the creation of his complex staging and effects)
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Storyboard makes the continuity possible!
Continuity in a movie: makes it understandable, logical, possible to follow to story line…
Storyboard ensures the continuity of the narrative: • how each shot will be preceded or followed • visual clues that forms, explains, details the narrative • ease in creating lists for the production (list of shots, list of props, list
of settings, list of effects…)
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Storyline as a list…
• start by putting down the main actions / events of your narrative as a simple list
• it will work as a the list of shots • (shot: single sequence of a motion picture, shot by one camera without interruption) • helps work out each different scene in the storyboard
in the storyboard: • each point of the storyline will be a scene, each move (of character,
camera,…) or each detail in a scene will be a panel
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1 1 2 A B A CUT
very low angle, full shot of cat
Fade-in : cat enters frame from left cat stops, looks up man’s feet appear from
right
truck with cat POV of man
“miouuuu….”
sound: cat paws soundtrack stars before fade-in
Terminology Scale: relationship of the frame to the object it presents. Angle: relationship of the camera’s position to the object it is focusing on. Camera Movement: the movement of the camera during a shot. Blocking: movement of what is seen inside the frame (characters, objects, vehicles,…)
SCALE:
Extreme Close-Up (ECU) Close-Up (CU) Medium Shot (MS)
Full Figure American (Cowboy) Shot
SCALE:
Long Shot (LS) Wide Shot (WS)
ANGLE:
Aerial Shot / Birds Eye View
High Angle Low Angle
Straight On / Frontal Profile 3/4 Shot
ANGLE:
Canted Frame (Dutch Angle) (…Dutch Tilt)
Over the Shoulder (OTS)
Point of View (POV):
the character is not in frame, we see through his/her eyes.
CAMERA MOVEMENT:
Dolly to Follow
Pan
Track Zoom
Car Mount
Tilt Boom
Beware Of Too Much Camera Movement!!!!
Transitions: to change from one scene to the next CUT: change of scene Fade-In / Fade-Out: image appears / disappears slowly Dissolve / Crossfade: overlapping, gradual change and other digital effects…
Wipe: one scene moves in, the other leaves
Other Notations…
Establishing Shot: often a wide shot of environment, to tell the audience where they are Off Screen (OS) / Off Camera (OC): not seen in the frame but heard
BLOCKING:
Use of Arrows to show movement, actions, directions…
Other information to be written under the image frames:
• Explanation of the action taking place
• Dialogues
• Effects
• Sounds, Music
• Any other information live-action, stop-motion, cell animation, flash animation, 3D animation, mix media…
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Visual Continuity !!!
• Where the subject enters, leaves the frame
• From which angle the subject is seen (repetition)
180º RULE
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Aspect Ratio Where will the short movie be viewed?
TV, Computer Screen, Digital Projection: 4:3, 1.33:1
Widescreen TV, HDTV: 16:9, 1.78:1 or 1.85:1(American)
Theatre Screen: 2.39:1
Web: Custom…but usually also shown on other media as well
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for Next Week….. Good luck with the storyboards !
Don’t forget :
• use correct notification (scene numbers, cuts, transitions, camera movements, effects….
• leave nothing to be guessed, storyboard should be understood by a
complete stranger
• you’re free to choose your storyboard format and visual style but make it organized and readable!
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