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why bother with pre-viz??

Matt Kelland tells you why...

1.See your movie before you make it and make creative decisions early.

2.Saves you time

3.Spot potential production issues early: easier to work out how to shoot something when you know exactly what you want.

4.Better production budgeting

5.Save money: typically 30% - 50% of shooting costs and 10% - 20% of post-production costs.

6.Help your cast and crew all see the same vision for the movie. Everyone can be involved: writer, 1st AD, editor, actors, production designers, sound, music, DOP, lights, costume, makeup, etc.

7.Any movie can benefit – even a short low-budget one. It’s not just for big productions.

His Motto: fix it in pre!

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Minimize standing around on set, minimize wasted shots,

speed up editing and post. The more you know in advance what you’re going to shoot and what the end result

should be, the quicker and easier it becomes to get there.

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what are storyboards? You might be wondering how to describe a storyboard. You might ask “What is a storyboard and how can I create one?”

The following extract has been taken from the Wiki Books Movie Making Manual:

Storyboards are drawings of the sequence of shots for a script. It helps to pre-visualize how the director wants the screenplay to be shot. As an image says more than a thousand words it is very useful as a basis to communicate the director's ideas to the crew and the producers. Some directors will storyboard every scene and camera angle to save time and money when they are on set. Others however feel that this can inhibit their creativity and will have very few graphic representations done before shooting commences.

To get an idea of how you can storyboard your movie, grab a comic book off the shelf at a bookstore. Many large productions will have storyboards that are somewhere between stick-man quality and full comic book illustrations... Every time you storyboard you will take that moment to see the shot through the camera. It's a heck of a lot less expensive than having a cast and crew waiting for you to "discover your vision" right there on the spot.... Storyboarding is

mainly there to get a first idea of what the film will look like. It gives indications of the size of the shot, the camera angle and the sequence of the shots. It is rarely followed exactly but it is a helpful guideline during the shooting of a film. It's very common while a crew is tearing down all the lighting rigs and moving to the next shot, the Director and DP will be looking at the storyboard trying decide what is best before everything needs to be placed. Since they have those plans, they are more capable of improvising.

The main areas where storyboarding is regarded as essential are in the planning of elaborate stunts, special effects sequences and designing make-up and costumes.

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