Planning: Storyboard - Miss Begum

What is a storyboard? And why is it important?

A Story board is a graphic representation of your idea/story and how you plan to present it to the audience in this case, What scene you've decided to make fist. It simply unfolds your idea and accompanied by a reasonable amount of description/explanation under the image, it gives the audience a clear image on what you plan to create. Story boards are extremely useful when creating a production as the whole idea and techniques have been planned out on the story board and the whole team are bound to have to same idea as they would all be following the story board. It also simplifies the decision on when to take each scene as the storyboard shows what scenes come first and is laid out in a chronological manor. It is the best way to share your vision with the group and bond ideas together.

Advantages of storyboards 

Advantages:

• Saves time in pre-planning, filming and editing
• Clear depiction of what you intend to do.
• Combines ideas 
• shows what techniques to use (i.e.Low key lighting)
• Can be used to organise which scene to film first
• Helps you in the editing process to pre-plan your narrative

Disadvantages:

• Not very detailed
• an be restrictive
•  It’s time consuming
•  Doesn’t always look good

It is clearly shown by the lists that there are more advantages than disadvantages.

This is the original storyboard we created using common conventions and influences from other thrillers.