Pre Production 3
- 1. Pre-Production 3: Scripting and Storyboarding SJSJ Grade 8 Technology Class March 2012
- 2. Planning Your Transitions • Bars • Blur Effect • Checkerboard • Brightness Effect • DirectX Media Wipe • Fade Effect • Dissolve • Film Aging Effect • Fade • Filter Effects • Iris • Mirror and Grayscale • Pixelate Effects • SMPTE Wipe • Pixelate Effect • Wheel • Speed Effects
- 3. Planning Your Audio • Direct sound • Selective Sound – Live sound. – Add or remove sound – Not always ideal – Ex: ticking bomb • Studio sound • Sound Bridge – Recorded in studio – Continue across cut – Improve sound quality – Use for continuity – Eliminating ambient • Dubbed dialogue sound • Wildtrack (asynchronous) – Dubbed dialogue – Deliberately recorded – Can be mixed with live separately from scene and environmental sound then added
- 4. Scripting vs. Storyboarding • Script: • Storyboard – Written text of a stage – Series of panels on which a play, screenplay or broadcast set of sketches is arranged to depict the important changes of scene and action in a series of shots – A visual script
- 5. Considerations • Your Audience – Students? Parents? Young Children? Other? • Length of Film • Message – Persuasive? Informative? Entertaining?
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. Keep in Mind the 5 W’s • Who? • What? • Where? • When? • Why?
- 11. Storyboarding
- 12. Storyboarding
- 13. 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.
- 14. What’s Next • Individual Storyboards • Team collaborates to create a script, storyboard and pitches to have it produced
- 15. Questions?