Making The Visit - Storyboards

Today is my first crude attempt at starting a storyboard. A storyboard is a very rough series of sketches that show all the shots of the movie. You can do each picture on a separate piece of paper and pin them all up on a wall so you can see how your movie goes from beginning to end. Or you can actually take pictures or scans of your sketches and pull them into the computer where you can edit them into a little movie. Doing this helps to figure out how shots will be timed and how they will look when they lead from one to the next.

In the photograph above, you can see my storyboard. It's the little pad in the lower right corner. I did a few drawings and photographed them. Then I put them together in sequence by using Flash. You can press the button below to play the storyboard movie.

I am not looking for anything close to perfection with this. It's fast, sketchy, and totally changeable any time I want.