Preliminary Exercise 7: Storyboarding Camerawork: Shot Sizes, Camera angles, Framing and Camera Composition Post 1: Day 2

 Introduction Paragraph

Hi everyone! For this blog, we are continuing our storyboarding process. For storyboarding, the first thing that needs to be done is breaking down the script. The storyboarding team must find what scenes they want to choose. Storyboarding every part of the film isn't the best way to go, so they choose the most important scenes to break down.

Next, the chosen scenes need to be roughly sketched out. This helps the production team visualize the story.

Now, the team needs to clean up the drawings, enhancing certain details. Afterwards, the artists focus on the composition of the scenes. Then, the whole storyboard gets reviewed by peers, to ensure that it's perfect to film. They can also use digital apps to help with cleaning up the storyboard as well.

The skills that are required for making a storyboard are artistic skills(for drawing the images), and storytelling skills.

The objective of sheets #3 and #4 were to continue our storyboarding process from sheet #1 and #2, and to draw them with precision and meaning.

The categories used for this assignment were shot sizes(, camera angles, framing, and composition.

For Sheet 3:

Shot Sizes: Close-Up Shot, Extreme Close-Up, Medium Shot, Medium Full Shot

Camera Angles: Canted/Dutch Angle, Eye Level, Shoulder Level, Overhead

Camera Framing: Single shot, Two shot, Over the Shoulder Shot, Insert Shot

Composition: Deep focus, Shallow Focus, Balance, Point of View Shot

For Sheet 4:

Shot Sizes: Wide shot, 2 Medium Shots, Extreme Close-Up Shot

Camera Angles: Knee Level, Ground Level, Dutch Angle, High Angle

Camera Framing: Insert Shot, Crowd Shot, Point of View, and Over the Shoulder

Composition: Deep focus, Balance, Lines Shape, Point, Color, and Shallow Focus

sheet 3:

sheet 4:

 Reflection

To conclude, the objective of this activity was to learn how to make storyboards, and how to convey a story with them. 

In my opinion, this activity was way easier than the first two sheets. Once my group and I completed those two sheets, it was more manageable to focus on the last two. We did accomplish the goal of this task.

Khloe R was the main person to work on these two sheets. My teammates split up the 4 papers between the 4 of us. I did the first, Lexi M did the second, Khloe R. did the third and fourth, and Marley B. did research and also aided us in all the papers. We used computers only to get this assignment done.

From this whole experience, my team and I learned how storyboards play a huge role in creating a film. Without storyboards, the film would be out of place and disorganized.  My team did an amazing job on collaborating to get this task done. Thanks for popping in!

Work Cited

https://www.careersinfilm.com/storyboarding/#:~:text=The%20storyboarding%20process%20involves%20the,be%20clearly%20visualized%20and%20understood. 

https://www.cgspectrum.com/career-pathways/storyboard-artist#:~:text=Storyboard%20artists%20need%20to%20be,skills%20as%20a%20storyboard%20artist