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STORYBOARDS, SHOOTING LIST & CAMERA SHOT LISTS.pdf
- 1. TV Field Production ShootingList, Shot List and Story Boards
- 2. Preparation To Shoot —Director’s strategy — A plan for visual & dramatic approach to the day’s work — Blocking the scenes — The setups — Personality and motivation of characters — Scene action within the larger context of the script
- 3. Preparing a scene —Each shot planned with framing and movement — Director should know all movements of actors, wher they should be when delivering lines and how the camera will cover the script. — Organization and preparation are very important.
- 4. Previsualization — Visualizing afilm in advance is a difficult skill to develop — Individual shots are easy, but whole scenes are challenging — Tools: — Overhead — Storyboards — Shot List — Shooting Scripts
- 5. Overheads — Diagrams fromoverhead — Draw diagram of location or set — Think about movement of characters while they say their lines — Block with actors in rehearsal — Devise a few setups — Decide what material from script you will cover in each setup — Decide where the line is and where to start shooting
- 6. Storyboards — Each shoton one side of the page while script, dialogue, actions on the other side — Determine limited camera setups needed that wer eon the overhead diagram — Apportion Action and Dialogue to those setups on the story board — The storyboard will give the framing of the shot and movement of camera and talent — Assign lines and action to each setup — Movement represented by key framings with arrows indicating direction of movement
- 7. Shooting Scripts andShot Lists — Initial scripts are bare bones with no camera direction or character movement — Then a shooting script is put together with numbered scenes — The shot list is a less formal alternative to the storyboard — It list brief written descriptions of the intended shots
- 8. a typical scene —A master scene as we already discussed- — First go through the dialogue showing all the action characters, and set — Cover each characters most important, dramatic line. — Scene 8 Master scene wide — Takes — Scene 8a Medium shot of whole scene — Scene 8B John CU — Scene 8 C Andrea CU
- 9. Coverage — Shooting theaction and dialogue of a scene from more that one setup is called coverage — It should be built into the shooting plan — Individual dialogue and action shot from different angles — Gives options in the edit — Shooting from every possible angle makes the editor have to redirect the film — Shooting parts of the film from only one angle, keeps the control tight in the edit- Alfred Hitchhock
- 10. Production design andCostume — Visual elements help define a character — Modern sets — Stereotyped rooms — Future worlds- Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, — Color –warm or cool tones — Texture –empty or cluttered gives a lot of information about the character
- 11. Organization On TheSet — Once preproduction is over a film moves to principal photography — Tools useful in creating order for shooting — Production Board- a representation of the scenes and all elements that the script requires — Characters — Props — Vehicles — Sets — Locations — Time
- 12. Scenes listed onstrips — Across horizontal axis — Scenes are put in order according to how PM or AD foresees shooting them — Scenes or the whole movie are not shot in chronological order — They are shot in order according to when elements are available — Movie Magic, Production Partners software scheduling packages
- 13. Production Board orScheduling software — It assists AD or PM in the most efficient approach to shooting an entire feature film
- 14. Story Board &shotlist — Organize the crew’s daily activities — Setups can be organized to include all work in that area being completed before moving on — All talent schedules and extra’s schedule can be — If a storyboard is posted in a public place or is distributed this can be a way for all departments to anticipate the needs for the shoot — The storyboard lays out how shots are supposed to be edited together
- 15. Lined Script — Scriptsuper will draw a vertical line through the dialogue that is being covered from a specific setup — The idea is to show the material has been covered from which angles. — 8A master, 8B/ MS, 8C MS, 8D CU
- 16. Production Forms — Budget —Script Breakdown — Call sheets — Continuity and script note