Master Storyboarding

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Why Storyboard?

Your storyboard is a crucial resource to help plan for success when working on a movie. A well thought-out storyboard doesn’t just help you to keep production on track and on style, it helps you to develop creatively too. There are different storyboarding tips that helps you to develop creativity.

In the words of Hayao Miyazaki, “I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift…”. Thinking through your storyboarding tips and spending time with your visuals beforehand helps you to understand your story in a deeper, more realised way.

So why would you not bother to create a storyboard when planning your movie with some stroyboarding tips we have here?

Pre-production takes time. It can be highly involved and detailed, so sometimes it can feel laborious, or detached from the real process of filmmaking – shooting. It can be easy to let storyboarding fall to the side, in favour of “getting on with it” instead. But solid planning and preparation is the key to success in production. When a crew can follow a well-made plan, it helps them to make the most of their shoot time and achieve the visual impact they want from the footage.

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The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.

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So, how can you storyboard in a way that’s fun and engaging, ready to streamline your shooting and follow through on all your ideas? Here, we have some storyboarding tips to help you master.

Some Storyboarding Tips

1. First storyboarding tips is you don’t have to be an artist to storyboard well. Beautiful storyboards are works of art in themselves, but yours doesn’t need to be beautiful for it to be useful. Use stick figures and doodles, and include some useful notes or arrows to indicate camera or character movements. As long as it makes sense and can be followed, it’s doing its job.
2. Include a mix of “must have” and “would like to have” shots. This will help you prioritise and add some flourishing touches too. Always consider having a wide or a master shot in there, with a mix of nice closeups or cutaways to add variety and detail. Note down which are the most important and urgent. Do you have enough coverage of the scene?
3. Storytelling is another storyboarding tips. What matters most to the audience? What do they need to know? Make sure to include this in a closeup if it’s helpful, try using Hitchcock’s rule to determine shot size.
4. Hate drawing? Take a camera and storyboard through taking still photos. Take snapshot images of how you’d like your shots to look, then organise them into a storyboard sequence.
5. Working with a partner is good storyboarding tips to follow. Talking about your ideas can sometimes help you to refine or develop them, as well as including new ones you might not have thought up without a collaborator involved.
6. Work scene by scene. If you find pre-production tough and you like to just get going with filming straight away, break your movie up into sections and work through it bit by bit. This will help to make it feel more manageable,   but you’ll still have the plan to keep you focused and on track.
7. Workshop your scenes with your actors and your crew. Try blocking out the scene and positioning the cameras, then record your choices on a storyboard (you can draw one or work with still images) to come back to later.
8. Be open minded. A storyboard is a really useful resource, but remember it isn’t set in stone. It’s fine to have new ideas as you go, and then choose whether to include them. By tracking production to your storyboard, you’ll be      able to see how much time you have available, whether it’s really needed, or whether it can replace something you already had in mind. It will help to keep production moving smoothly, as well as helping you stay true to your original vision.  Therefore, one can be reallly creative following the above storyboarding tips.

For a storyboarding template, take a look here >>>

You can also find some inspiring examples of some professional storyboards here >>>

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