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VISUAL NARRATIVE IN DESIGN STORYBOARDS

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Page 1: STORYBOARDS · Storyboard is the visual script! In big productions, it is created by a storyboard artist. Level of cooperation between the director and the SB artist varies. Directors

VISUAL NARRATIVE IN DESIGN

STORYBOARDS

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“Show, don’t tell !” Ansen Dibell

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Storyboard is the visual script!

In big productions, it is created by a storyboard artist. Level of cooperation between the director and the SB artist varies. Directors with a strong visual sense are highly involved in the

creation of storyboards:

Hitchcock (art director background…pioneer of movie designers) Spielberg (SB enables the creation of his complex staging and effects)

Storyboard

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Storyboard makes the continuity possible!

Continuity in a movie: makes it understandable, logical, possible to follow to story line…

Storyboard ensures the continuity of the narrative: •  how each shot will be preceded or followed •  visual clues that forms, explains, details the narrative •  ease in creating lists for the production (list of shots, list of props, list

of settings, list of effects…)

Storyboard

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Storyline as a list…

•  start by putting down the main actions / events of your narrative as a simple list

•  it will work as a the list of shots •  (shot: single sequence of a motion picture, shot by one camera without interruption) •  helps work out each different scene in the storyboard

in the storyboard: •  each point of the storyline will be a scene, each move (of character,

camera,…) or each detail in a scene will be a panel

Storyboard

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Storyboard

1 1 2 A B A CUT

very low angle, full shot of cat

Fade-in : cat enters frame from left cat stops, looks up man’s feet appear from

right

truck with cat POV of man

“miouuuu….”

sound: cat paws soundtrack stars before fade-in

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Terminology Scale: relationship of the frame to the object it presents. Angle: relationship of the camera’s position to the object it is focusing on. Camera Movement: the movement of the camera during a shot. Blocking: movement of what is seen inside the frame (characters, objects, vehicles,…)

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SCALE:

Extreme Close-Up (ECU) Close-Up (CU) Medium Shot (MS)

Full Figure American (Cowboy) Shot

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SCALE:

Long Shot (LS) Wide Shot (WS)

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ANGLE:

Aerial Shot / Birds Eye View

High Angle Low Angle

Straight On / Frontal Profile 3/4 Shot

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ANGLE:

Canted Frame (Dutch Angle) (…Dutch Tilt)

Over the Shoulder (OTS)

Point of View (POV):

the character is not in frame, we see through his/her eyes.

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CAMERA MOVEMENT:

Dolly to Follow

Pan

Track Zoom

Car Mount

Tilt Boom

Beware Of Too Much Camera Movement!!!!

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Transitions: to change from one scene to the next CUT: change of scene Fade-In / Fade-Out: image appears / disappears slowly Dissolve / Crossfade: overlapping, gradual change and other digital effects…

Wipe: one scene moves in, the other leaves

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Other Notations…

Establishing Shot: often a wide shot of environment, to tell the audience where they are Off Screen (OS) / Off Camera (OC): not seen in the frame but heard

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BLOCKING:

Use of Arrows to show movement, actions, directions…

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Other information to be written under the image frames:

•  Explanation of the action taking place

•  Dialogues

•  Effects

•  Sounds, Music

•  Any other information live-action, stop-motion, cell animation, flash animation, 3D animation, mix media…

Storyboard

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Visual Continuity !!!

•  Where the subject enters, leaves the frame

•  From which angle the subject is seen (repetition)

180º RULE

Storyboard

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Aspect Ratio Where will the short movie be viewed?

TV, Computer Screen, Digital Projection: 4:3, 1.33:1

Widescreen TV, HDTV: 16:9, 1.78:1 or 1.85:1(American)

Theatre Screen: 2.39:1

Web: Custom…but usually also shown on other media as well

Storyboard

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Storyboard

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Storyboard

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for Next Week….. Good luck with the storyboards !

Don’t forget :

•  use correct notification (scene numbers, cuts, transitions, camera movements, effects….

•  leave nothing to be guessed, storyboard should be understood by a

complete stranger

•  you’re free to choose your storyboard format and visual style but make it organized and readable!

Storyboard