Storyboard

Storyboard

The primary purpose of a storyboard is to help you visualise what you're aiming to achieve with the film. It allows you to plan out and see the structure of your production and consequently gives you something to go off, alongside the script, when filming is taking place.

With our storyboard we made it quite simple, which meant that the key idea of the specific scene or shot was instantly recognisable when we looked at it whilst filming. Although the drawings are basic, the text underneath reinforces the idea we came up with which in turn made it less vague.

The longer scenes had more boxes to fill in because of the different angles of shots and people involved within a scene. Whereas with other scenes, for example Scene 5, we only needed one picture to show us what we were trying to do because the scene was only going to be a second or two long with a sustained shot, therefore less time needed to be spend prepping for that short scene.

Overall, whilst filming, the storyboard did help because the planning and the filming were quite different in time to eachother, this meant our ideas weren't as vivid as when we first thought of them. By having pictures alongside out script meant that we could visualise in more depth what we were aiming to achieve.