Storytelling script to screen:16/4/18 - 17/4/18: Week 9: Storyboard continuation

In week 9 of the script to screen module I continued work on my storyboard ready for the tutorial on

finished story board.

storyboard pro. I used the finalised script draft to create the remaining shots in the storyboard, and made some alterations based on the camera shot definitions. I sadly ran out of space on the paper I was using, but felt placing it on the back of the paper was a bad idea I wondered if it would be needed for submission. Thankfully I had some A1 card that I use for photographing my book projects, and finished the remaining frames. The following day in University I had these scanned into the computer via the printer in the library. However the paper was too big for the printer, and so I folded the storyboards and had them scanned.

The first attempts didn't seem very good when brought into Photoshop to be compiled together. So I tried again and the images seemed much clearer in presentation. These were brought together as an A3 image and the levels were altered slightly as the printer seemed to make the paper brighter than the pencil lines, this though was an easy issue to fix but I felt I had to make sure that the lines were properly defined and so were the characters.

 Animatic storyboard

Looking at the finished version I felt it looked very professional much like the storyboards you would see in Disney animations which was a good sign in my opinion.

Looking back on the storyboard I would think that I have done well to represent the script and characters in my story. However I felt I could've improved on a few things, such as the size of the paper I sketched the story boards onto for whilst A1 was a good size for more frames it didn't fit the scanner size. In hindsight, I should've accounted for the size of the scanner before selecting the paper to draw the storyboard onto and the power of the scanner itself. However I would think that despite the issues the presentation of the storyboards seemed well presented when brought together in Photoshop for the production bible, however the writing will need to be made clearer for the accessor to read what shot/frame this is. 

In conclusion the storyboard was a presentable piece of work to place in the production bible when everything else is up to date. In future I shall look at the size of the scanner first before sketching out the storyboards to get an idea of what paper size to use.