Prepare to Board! by Nancy Beiman - Revision history

Snapai: /* Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard */

2021-01-24T20:24:24Z

Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard

Snapai: /* Climactic Events */

2021-01-24T19:50:36Z

Climactic Events

Snapai: /* Climactic Events */

2021-01-24T19:50:19Z

Climactic Events

Snapai: /* Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards */

2021-01-24T19:48:51Z

Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards

Snapai: /* The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences */

2021-01-24T05:21:25Z

The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences

Snapai: /* Boarding time: Getting With the Story Beat */

2021-01-24T04:39:46Z

Boarding time: Getting With the Story Beat

Snapai: /* Roughing it: Basic Staging */

2021-01-24T04:15:21Z

Roughing it: Basic Staging

Snapai: /* Structure: The Mind's Eye */

2021-01-24T03:51:50Z

Structure: The Mind's Eye

Snapai: /* Starting Story Sketch: Compose Yourself */

2021-01-24T03:47:02Z

Starting Story Sketch: Compose Yourself

Snapai: /* Location Location Location: Art Direction and Storytelling */

2021-01-23T21:41:00Z

Location Location Location: Art Direction and Storytelling

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 ==Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard==
 ===Working with Music===
 ===Visualizing the Script===
 ==Diamond in the Rough Model Sheet: Refining Character Designs==

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 Can be helpful to chart out the tension and climaxes, to know where you should be building more tension.
-See also [[Beating the Story by Robin D. Laws]]
+See also [[Beating the Story by Robin D. Laws|Beating the Story]]
 ==Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard==

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	Can be helpful to chart out the tension and climaxes, to know where you should be building more tension.		Can be helpful to chart out the tension and climaxes, to know where you should be building more tension.
		+	See also [[Beating the Story by Robin D. Laws]]

	==Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard==		==Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard==

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 ==Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards==
 ===Climactic Events===
 ==Present Tense: Creaging a Performance on Storyboard==
 ===Working with Music===

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 ==The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences==
 ===Panels and Papers: A Word about Storyboard Materials===
 ===Acting Out: Structuring Your Sequences===
 ===A-B-C Sequences: Prioritizing the Action===
 ===Arcs and Triumphs===
 ===Naming Names===
 ==Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards==
 ===Climactic Events===

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 ==Boarding time: Getting With the Story Beat==
 ===Working to the Beat: Story Beats and Boards===
 ===Do You Want To Talk About It===
 ==The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences==
 ===Panels and Papers: A Word about Storyboard Materials===

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 ==Roughing it: Basic Staging==
 ===I'm Ready for My Close-up: Storyboard Cinematography===
 ==Boarding time: Getting With the Story Beat==
 ===Working to the Beat: Story Beats and Boards===

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 ;Don't animate the camera: or at least, not until you've designed everything else and determined a story point calls for a camera move.
-;Design your frames: apply [[design principles]] to your panels.
+;Design your frames: apply [[Design Principles|design principles]] to your panels.
 ;Watch out for tangents: connecting lines that create flow or association that shouldn't be there.

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 ==Starting Story Sketch: Compose Yourself==
 ===Tonal Sketches===
 ===Graphic Images Ahead!===
 ===The Drama in the Drawings: Using Contrast to Direct the Eye===
 ===The Best Laid Floor Plans===
 ===Structure: The Mind's Eye===
 ==Roughing it: Basic Staging==
 ===I'm Ready for My Close-up: Storyboard Cinematography===

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	==Location Location Location: Art Direction and Storytelling==		==Location Location Location: Art Direction and Storytelling==
		+	The art director sets the film's period/location/prop/character design/style.
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		+	Setting is important, along with props, to influence the path of the story.
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		+	Important objects should be visually prominent in boards and backgrounds.
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		+	Location planning:
		+	* Atmospheric sketches
		+	* floor plan or map
		+	* master backgrounds
		+	* background details and props that will be interacted with
		+	* characters to show scale
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		+	Location never just location - there is a story behind why they are how they are even if that is not the story we are telling.
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		+	Helps with suspension of disbelief, that this is a world that has been lived in (or not, just arrived in, if that's what's called for)
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		+	Opening shots are the introduction.
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		+	Characters and backgrounds can depict emotions.
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		+	K.I.S.S. Your viewers don't have hours to spend analyzing all the details in backgrounds.
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		+	Your scenes make statements, can also make story contrasts between them.
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		+	Questions for considering a film setting:
		+	* Time period for the story? What year, season, time of day, geography?
		+	* Visually interesting time period with an aesthetic?
		+	* What shapes and colors suggest the period?
		+	* What materials are objects made of?
		+	* If natural, what kind of natural setting? What colors dominate?
		+	* Is the story on this planet/dimension, or another?
		+	* What are the rules of the fantasy world?
		+	* What's the story's tone - serious? Whimsical?
		+	* What mood colors do you need for the scene/story?
		+	* Is the scene supposed to match the characters or contrast them?
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		+	Backgrounds contain elements of the personalities/tastes that inhabit them?
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		+	What suggests the fantasy setting - is there a running theme?
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		+	Scale of characters to background
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		+	"Nothing harder to do than nothing" - specifying details make your work easier!

	=Part Two: Technique=		=Part Two: Technique=