This document provides information and guidance about pre-production planning for scripting and storyboarding a student technology class project. It outlines various transition effects that can be used, things to consider for audio planning like sound effects and bridges. It explains the differences between scripting and storyboarding, with scripting being the written text and storyboarding being a visual representation through a series of sketch panels. Considerations for audience, length, and message are noted. Details are provided about what to include in a script and storyboard like camera shots, effects, characters, and numbering scenes. Examples of storyboards are also shown. The document concludes by reminding students that storyboards don't need to be perfect and to just depict major scenes.

1. Pre-Production 3:
Scripting and Storyboarding
SJSJ Grade 8 Technology Class
March 2012

2. Planning Your Transitions
• Bars • Blur Effect
• Checkerboard • Brightness Effect
• DirectX Media Wipe • Fade Effect
• Dissolve • Film Aging Effect
• Fade • Filter Effects
• Iris • Mirror and Grayscale
• Pixelate Effects
• SMPTE Wipe • Pixelate Effect
• Wheel • Speed Effects

3. Planning Your Audio
• Direct sound • Selective Sound
– Live sound. – Add or remove sound
– Not always ideal – Ex: ticking bomb
• Studio sound • Sound Bridge
– Recorded in studio – Continue across cut
– Improve sound quality – Use for continuity
– Eliminating ambient • Dubbed dialogue
sound
• Wildtrack (asynchronous)
– Dubbed dialogue
– Deliberately recorded
– Can be mixed with live separately from scene and
environmental sound then added

4. Scripting vs. Storyboarding
• Script: • Storyboard
– Written text of a stage – Series of panels on which a
play, screenplay or broadcast set of sketches is arranged to
depict the important changes
of scene and action in a
series of shots
– A visual script

5. Considerations
• Your Audience
– Students? Parents? Young
Children? Other?
• Length of Film
• Message
– Persuasive? Informative?
Entertaining?

6. Scripting
• The dialogue and narration
• The action
• The talent
• The scene and setting
• The sound effects and music
• The graphics and credits
• The special props

7. Use the Script to
• Coordinate location shots and plan sets
• Choose the actors and actresses
• Decide on props, graphics, sound effects
and music
• Assign production crew tasks

8. Why Storyboard?
• Brainstorm ideas
• Visualize finished product
• Save time
• Plan camera and sound (Production)
• Plan edits (Post Production)
• Keep everyone on the same page
• Spot opportunities for camera shots

9. What to Include in
Storyboard
• Timing for each scene
• Who will appear in each scene?
• Camera Shots (Close up, two shot, wide, POV, etc)
• Camera Movement (Pan, tilt, zoom, etc)
• Lighting
• Cuts and effects between scenes
• Music and sound effects
• Any special effects?
• Number scenes and sections of storyboard

10. Keep in Mind the 5 W’s
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?

11. Storyboarding

12. Storyboarding

13. Points to Remember
• Storyboards don’t have to be perfect
• Use simple sketches—stick
figures, circles, lines, etc.
• You may use a graphics drawing program or
other application
• Just depict major scenes.

14. What’s Next
• Individual Storyboards
• Team collaborates to create a script, storyboard
and pitches to have it produced

15. Questions?