Storyboarding

Storyboarding is important. Very important, it seems. In our past Media Studies lesson, we explored storyboarding as a film-making process and it's significance in regards to making a film that is of a higher standard. An inevitably long, monotonous process, storyboarding is ultimately incredibly significant:

- It links planning to the actual filming process itself.

- Storyboarding allows the director to revise the sequencing and narrative of the film.

- Gives the director room to make mistakes, allowing improvements and revisions.

- Unites the entire production crew in the sense that they all have one vision of the film before the filming.

- Storyboarding can be effective for pitchng an idea to film production companies.

- Helps give the director an idea of timing and sound, both diegetic and non-diegetic.

As you can see, it's kind of imperative to the film-making process. Following this, we then analysed a behind the scenes video from M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. It gave me an insight into the ways in which storyboarding was used on a big-budget Hollywood production and how it was incredibly useful when structuring the layout of scenes, particularly for the sequences that required extra preparation. I came to the realisation that as long-winded the process might be, benefits that can reaped from storyboarding are priceless, especially if you're on set, with limited time to film and a budget to retain. 

Overall  I've learnt about the importance of storyboarding and the role it plays within the fimmaking process. I can apply this learning now to the storyboarding for the continuity task...

The Sixth Sense Storyboard