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The Fine Art of Storyboarding
Making video is art. And creating a storyboard is an artistic endeavor all its own. The purest form of storyboards, cormics, are characterized by minimal text and high impact images and have been turned into profitable, high-style movies like Batman, Rocketeer and Dick Tracy.
Comic book art is a superb guide for designing storyboards and suggesting unusual creative elements for your videos like odd angles, forced perspectives, and contrasting light and colors. Comics share videomakers' goals of fusing text and pictures with energy to tell a story in a brief space.
Storyboards serve many purposes in the evolution of a program and are often the first step in generating pictorial ideas from a script, detailing the coverage and visual treatment. Later, as a thumbnail representation of the movie, storyboards can be evaluated and manipulated. And when shooting's finished, the boards guide the editor. Even if used for only part of the video, story-boards are useful for working out stunt details and special effects …
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