Tutorial 5: Storyboarding and Planning

As part of my Participation in Occupation 1 class we got into groups and created our own short film (see next post). Planning was an essential part of creating our short film. We needed to know what our storyline was, who was going to act and who was going to film. Among other things we also needed to know how to use a video camera.

To create these films we used a storyboard to plan the plot of the film. Storyboards were used by Sergei Eisenstein, in the very beginnings of cinema. Walt Disney and his staff created the storyboard system in 1928 to enable the making of his films. A storyboard is the plan of what the finished film will look like. We used storyboards so that when we began filming, everyone in our group knew what needed to be done. It saved us time and made it a lot easier to know what shots needed to be filmed.

By planning our short film before we began filming we saved a lot of time. We also avoided any arguments as everyone knew what the plan was from the beginning.