Research: What is a Storyboard (Ms Begum)

LO: To be able to demonstrate what a storyboard is and identify the key features.

Story board is a graphical representation of how the your video will look like, scene by scene. Storyboards are made using square boxes which illustrates pictures representing each shot in the sequence.

Storyboards need to contain information about: cinematography, iconography, lighting, actors, sound, narrative, location, duration and Number of shots. 
Including all of these in a storyboard will make producing the scene a lot easier as the producer can just work with and around the information. Storyboard also ensures that you don't forget any shots and can piece together all your shots according to your storyboard.

Stages of Storyboarding

Script > Storyboard > Filming

Advantages of Storyboarding

• Helps clear up narrative, make it easier to understand.
• organises all your shots.
• The producing crew are able to visualize the scene before they have even shot it.
• Clear list of what micro-elements will be used for the shot.
• Cheap and easy to produce.

Disadvantages of Storyboard

• Time consuming
• Could think of better ideas while storyboarding leads to starting over.
• Your storyboard idea could get damaged/Go Missing.

This music video was effective as it was very odd yet creative as you wouldn't normally see a animated storyboard music video. This music video is different to the ones you'd see on TV due to the fact that sketch art is used to build draw up each shot. We can still see and identify micro-elements even though this is an animated music video such as low key lighting, fast editing and non-Diegetic sound.

Conclusion

The storyboarding task has given me a much better understanding of what storyboarding actually is and how it helps you produce your film. From this i will now be able to develop my ideas into a sequence which will give me a better idea of how my thriller will look.