Professional Videography

Practical
Storyboard
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• A sequence of visualized shots is called a
storyboard; it contains key visualization points
and audio information.
• A storyboard is usually drawn on preprinted
storyboard paper, which has areas that
represent the television screen. Another area,
usually below the screens, is dedicated to
audio and other information.
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• A storyboard can also be drawn on plain paper
or created by computer. Storyboard software
programs offer a great m any stock images
(houses, streets, highways, cars, living rooms,
and offices, for example) into which you can
place figures and move them into various
positions in the storyboard frame.
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A Storyboard must show:
• the position of people in each shot;
• the shot size;
• any important background element which is
essential for the scene;
• the important action.
• Most commercials are carefully storyboarded
shot-by shot before they ever go into
production.
• Storyboards help people who make decisions
about the commercial see the individual shots
and imagine them in sequence.
• Storyboards are also used for other types of single camera
productions that contain a great number of especially
complicated discontinuous shots or shot sequences.
• A good storyboard offers immediate clues to certain
production requirements, such as general location,
camera position, approximate focal length of the lens,
method of audio pickup, cutaways, amount and type of
postproduction, talent actions, set design, and hand
props.