Storyboard onto Screen

Running Time: 1 minute 25 seconds

Working out visual ideas on paper in pre-production can be extremely useful for the Director, Director for Photography, First AD, Lighting and Grip specialists. Drawings can be simple - even stick figures will help in many cases. If you don't think you can draw find someone who can and add them to you team. But if you cannot, do not let that stop your from making the storyboards.

Go to your primary shooting locations and using a digital camera, shoot stills a varying angles and then Hanna Hock style you can composite photos either in Photoshop or on paper of actors and actresses clipped from magazines to create the look of what can be translated to film.

The shot break downs are even more important than storyboards and they work together as a planning tool to make sure you can work efficiently on location. A shot breakdown is essentially a list of all the shots needed to tell the story.