FILM: Storyboard

For similar reasons to creating a script, a storyboard is very useful in communicating the directors vision. It is not vital to follow the storyboard shot by shot because it's not always possible. Though we as directors originally wanted our film to be shot around early evening, given the time of year we are filming, this isn't do-able. Like professionals, we have had to adjust our ideas and plans this is why a storyboard is never concrete. Sometimes the message we want to get across to the audience isn't always achieved through what we had planned so we had to change things and try different shots with the camera. It's also quite use full to shoot things you haven't necessarily planned or thought of before because it gives you a wider variety of shots to choose from and you may end up creating something better than your original idea.

Here's an example of part of our storyboards