Storyboards - April 16, 2018

This weeks project was done side-by-side with the directed study draft so, as I was putting that timeline together I was also building this.  I started the week's storyboarding exercise without a script and decided to add that as a function of the draft. As I was working back and forth between the two projects, I realized that the film would really benefit from a narration to give the viewer the finer points of the concept without making them connect too many abstract dots together on their own. At that point, it became clear that the storyboard would be useful to help me organize the footage I had collected and begin to tell the story with it. As a result, I switched from hand drawing the story board to inserting screen captures and writing the script on the description lines below each shot.

PROCESS

I had written the script out as a list rather than in a formatted document and recorded my read of it into the computer where I cut each line out and placed it in the Premiere timeline with these video clips. I then went through each clip I was using and took a screen shot. At that point I was able to put them in an order that made sense with the script I wrote. This made it much easier to see the final version of the piece without having to go completely through the process of loading, organizing and editing footage just to find that there were gaps that needed to be filled in the narrative. This saved me quite a bit of time and think this process is exactly what the exercise is geared toward finding: a way to more easily build a vision of the finished piece. Below are the additional pages of the storyboard I created and the script as it existed during the process.