Today I had a photography lesson about how photographs can be used instead of sketches when creating storyboards. Storyboards are something that I have never really been brilliant at, personally I feel that this is due to my poor skills in drawing, I much prefer to create shot lists instead as I feel that I have a better way of explaining a shot than of drawing one.
First of all I started by being introduced to the camera, which was a Nikon 3100, although I did understand the basics because I have a camera similar to it myself. Once I had familiarised myself with the camera I started to work with another class member to create a visual storyboard for a short film that we could pherhaps make. We decided to create a short storyboard, consisting of around ten images, about somebody in need of the toilet who is unable to get to the toilet becuase it's locked. Overall we took around seventy images and had to cut it down to ten. Some of the images that we had werent great, either becuase they were out of focus or we had multiple shots already like it.
Once we had all the images we uploaded them onto the computer and started editing, although we ran out of time and were unable to do any major editing on them, for example, putting them in the correct order, and putting effects. I'll definatly be coming back to this work at a later date to finish the work.
I learnt a lot today, and this is a skills that I will be using in work to come as I feel that it will make storyboarding, and the actual production a lot easier and understandable.
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