Storyboarding: A Process

        I really only learned what storyboarding consists of and is really meant for this past week, but now I truly understand its importance. I've learned that storyboarding can just be a rough sketch of what you want scenes to look like (which is helpful for me because I am simply not a good illustrator), and can also include arrows, for example, that are to direct the actors and the camera. I actually find it very interesting that you can essentially plan out what you want an entire movie to appear as before you even start rolling the cameras. I like that a lot because I tend to have visions of scenes for my ideas and being able to draw them out to see if I actually want it that way is important to me. I think storyboarding is essential to the production of any form of video, or film because it not only allows people to see their ideas before they are filmed, but it can assist cinematographers and production designers, for instance, also plan what they need to get together before filming begins. This helps the whole process go about more smoothly.

        For media studies this week, we were asked to create a storyboard based on a movie clip, so I chose a scene from The Wizard Of Oz especially because it is one of my favorite films of all time. This scene is when Dorothy is singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD - YouTube 

 



        The main challenge in storyboarding for me is the drawing, but overall I think I got a relatively well idea of the scene captured in my "illustrations". At first I attempted to use the Studio Binder program but that turned out to be too complicated for me so I just went ahead and printed a template that had the lines for describing the scene. I definitely figured out that I prefer to do the type of storyboard that has more description/details than drawings because it allows me to effectively show what the scene should consist of without drawing well.

        When it comes to storyboarding, although at first I was intimidated by the concept because of my inability to draw, I think the process of learning how to do it will take me far beyond the reaches of this class and into my career in the industry of media.

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