Do you guys draw storyboards?

[Keeper of Hellfire]

Drawing? In literal sense? No! My drawing skills suck.

Usually I develop the ideas completely in my mind, make clips and start to edit. But for one project I have written a vague storyboard - I did write down the lyrics and connected some scenes to the lines. It is obvious that for developing it in mind and then cutting out the scenes you have to know the anime like your pocket. So actually I'm watching the anime that I want to use for my next 2 projects and make notes where to find the scenes, because it's a bit longer anime and I didn't watch it often enough in the near past.

[meleechampion]

I meant to mark or lay out, not necessarily with pictures. (I can't "draw" either) I'm very surprised that the majority of you don't, but I guess it's a lot easier that way. I've run into the problem that "hey, this scene isn't the way I remember it" and now I can't use it. Something that pre-planning would fail at if I were to try to adhere to it.

[Shazzy]

I do storyboards for anything I shoot live-action. Storyboards for scenes that already exist doesn't help me much. What I will do is split up everything into subclips if I'm working with a lot of anime footage (a whole series, multiple series, etc.).

[Streicher]

I drew a storyboard once for an opening parody I was planning to do. Basically to help me find appropiate scenes and to see wich scenes I would have had to make myself.
I lost it somewhere and I didn't have time to make that idea anyway. I don't think I'll draw one again.

Normally I just set some markers for starters. I can work better when not planning every tiny bit out and some of the sickest ideas I've done were thought out "on the fly".
Then I create a very rough and badly timed cut of my amv with some replacement clips and text. Later on I swap them for the real scenes, once I've found them and often keep the bad timing, just to drive JCD nuts.

It serves the same purpose as a storyboard but you get much faster into the process of actually doing something for the video.

[JaddziaDax]

sometimes i write out notes in a notebook outlining which scenes i want to use so i dont forget them later, but for the most part i tend to wing it and just use what video feels right at the time... sometimes that works sometimes not

i find that my videos are better when i have listened to the song several times and i can pick out what scenes i want in my head before even starting... then when i go "clip harvesting" i listen to the song that way i can get as much video i think would fit into the mood of the song, and sometimes i stumble on things i never thought of..

it helps to listen to it looping on my ipod though cause virtualdub slows down my computer alot

[The Wired Knight]

Nope most people actually do stuff on the fly

I hope this isn't a joke becuase that is how I do things

Seriously, I made Purpose of Persocoms having only seen two episodes of Chobits, I still haven't watched more than those two episodes. I had to judge what was going on based on my knowledge of the manga.

[Castor Troy]

I remember one person asking me how I storyboard.

I was like.... uhhhh

[taifunbrowser]

Ive done a storyboard before when I was playing around with masking and wanted characters to interact on screen; but aside from that nothing in an AMV requires that much planning in advance, other than just a lot of mental preperation O.O I suppose its more useful for people with 20 year old computers to prepare, because they cant just watch through their video on the timeline because its probably an dgindex > avisynthed .vob file if you're doing it right*..

*note bias.

[Hiro The Dragon King]

I started drawing storyboards in October for a few vids i wanted to do...[font size=x-small]by draw I mean write the lyrics & add stick figure layouts[/font]...but only I only made two of them...[font size=x-small]but haven't finished[/font]. The only reason I do them is because I'm bored at school and have a major case of senioritis. Not usually to remember ideas. I've only done it to remember ideas with this currnet one I am working on cuz it's a bit crazy and I forget them a lot.

[Hiro The Dragon King]

lol...fucked up dem tags didn't I?