Thursday, July 05, 2007

Storyboards From Film Class

The Basic Film and Video Production class that I was taking ended last month. Our final project involved the whole class with the instructor assigning a film production role to each person. The instructor was the executive producer and then classmates filled roles such as screenwriter, director, editor and so on. There were about 15 of us in the class so each of us had a role. I volunteered to be the storyboard artist. The story is a comedy about a person who takes diving "lessons" from a unqualified scuba shop employee. I didn't receive much guidance from the director while creating the boards so I just followed the script and tried to "direct" it myself. In review, I see that some of the drawings imply a higher camera angle than I meant them to. Below are some of the storyboards:



I'm again hearing the siren song of animation in the form of a character that a co-worker has asked me to animate. This is going to be a single character that will be composited into a short, live-action film that he is working on. I'm really looking forward to working on this. The character design (already done) is simple, something straight out of Samurai Jack.

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