What I Learned About Storyboarding

I learned quite a bit from storyboarding in AS. We didn't spend that much time storyboarding when doing our film opening so didn't do many shots. We kind of skimmed the surface of shots by generalising chunks of shots into one storyboard box. This meant that when we got to filming. we shot too little and ended up having to go back to shoot two more times before we had sufficient footage. Despite this I think that it was very helpful to organise our thoughts and to see exactly what we wanted to shoot. We were able to see what shots were angled the same so that we could film those together rather then shooting them seperatly and then trying angle the camera the same, so it helped significantly with continuity.

Now I'm storyboarding for A2 and I know to storyboard every single small shot whether it's three seconds long or one second long. I've made sure it is detailed with every camera angle and movement specified to ensure its as professional as possible.