Storyboarding
I still find storyboarding challenging. I wrote about it in my Year 1 FMP, and I had some ideas to try to improve my ability. We have done some fantastic projects this year, since my Year 1 FMP, but these particular projects haven’t really lent themselves to me being able to try out any of the methods I was hoping to, until this Year 2 FMP.
Since my Year 1 FMP, we have filmed a short Black and White Silent film, which my group shot in a single stationary shot, to emulate a common way of filming back in the original days of Black and White Silent Movies. I suppose we could have storyboarded exactly where we wanted the actors to move within the frame, but it really wasn’t necessary – on-set direction worked very well. It was a game of Musical Chairs, with one acting menacingly towards the other, but the less dominant character actually winning. To do a storyboard for this would have been making extra unnecessary work for ourselves, something which I learnt from many areas is NOT something that is welcomed in the Industry. There is enough to do for a production without doing unnecessary work.
I have decided to do some more research into Storyboarding. Last year for my Year 1 FMP I looked at ways to do Storyboarding. This time I want to look at what successful directors do. I haven’t decided whether I will write up what I find under Research or under Preproduction Storyboarding, it depends what I find out.