So I can’t draw. As you can see from above my artistic technique isn’t up to industry standards, but you can sure as hell know I tried. I haven’t actually done a lot of storyboarding myself, so to do this part I went on a rampage of scouring the internet for good storyboards and came across “Visionary Director” Zack Snyder’s work. He brings a certain amount of life into his work, and using Watchmen as an example we can all see he can make a scene look visually dynamic. I particular enjoy the fact that he stayed very true to the original source material in the comics, which in my head also means he gets an advantage with having pictures already there as guidelines, but still it’s super cool.

Now as we were discussing in class the other day, storyboards play a fundamental part in any production. It allows for us to visualize what we have in our heads and show everyone else what you want to create. The images obviously allow the director to show everyone else involved, especially the cinematographer, what they have envisioned and acts as a great starting point for where to start shot composition. Now in our case, our storyboards are going to be very flexible, because I honestly can’t draw even if my life depended on it. This took me at least an hour of trial and error to create. So my night was definitely eventful. But one thing I did find that I was very good at was writing notes, specifically commenting on the individual shots and their significance within the film. Since we have very little dialogue at all in the film, I wanted to make sure that the visuals were able convey enough of the story to make sense. It’s one thing to have words there describing the significance of each scene, but with my extra notes I made sure that the reasons behind each camera and diagetic movement had a purpose. It definitely adds more time to the storyboard process, so as a group we split up key scenes within the script so that the person who envisioned it first or most clearly would be able to do that scene justice to what they initially pictured.

So far it is going okay, I do feel like I’m the black-sheep here dragging everyone down with this component. But just you wait till we have to organize people and stuff, I’m going to produce the shit out of this project.

 

References

http://www.slashfilm.com/zack-snyder-reveals-watchmen-storyboards/