Making The Visit - Storyboards

I added three more shots to the storyboard movie. This storyboarding is like a war for me. I am a very rough draftsman. I have to fight for everything I can get in a drawing. So making the storyboard is a terrible battle with awkward limbs, flat compositions, ragged lines, too many erasures, dull pencils that make a mess of thick lines that smudge into one another, torn paper, pencil shavings all over my nice neat desk, and many more. It's really difficult to draw all these pictures. I'm simply not that much of an artist. It's just that I have this idea of a movie and I will make that movie even if I have to do it by scraping a nail in concrete. Nothing matters but the finished movie. I've jotted a list of all the shots I think the movie will need and come up with a total of seventy-one. That's seventy-one pencil drawings I have to put into my storyboard. I've got seven so far.

Doing the storyboard is a little like making a comic of your movie. The great thing is that while doing it you can work on character and scene design as you go. Once you finish all those drawings you really own your movie. You will have figured out solutions to many practical problems in the staging of your scenes.