Do you guys draw storyboards?

SQ · Post by SQ » Sun May 13, 2007 8:15 pm

I draw storyboards for live-action videos sometimes, if it's something big or amazing or hard to remember.

Most of the time, though, I'll usually do something that's KIND of like line scripting.

Line scripting is basically where you take a script someone has written(for a movie or whatever) and draw lines on it. What lines of script the drawn line goes over defines what is going to be captured in that certains hot. The lines are then labelled and defined on a master shot list.

What I do is I basically write down lyrics and/or timecode down vertically, and define what I want in those portions.

For example, In The End by Linkin park just because it's overdone and everyone knows it:

beginning - 00:10 - "piano" key effects of only bust and head shots, character profiling main character's gf.

"It starts with" - Fade in landscape scenes (episode references here, maybe) matching the words.

"one thing" - Splash a black and white version of accident from (episode), fade to color version with artificial zoom.

Basically shit like that.

but for 99% of videos that actually get DONE, I write somethign down like "anime - song, "i" is main character, "you, her" is character's gf, story detailing relationship, based on lyric synch" and then flesh it out on the timline.

I've never storyboarded an entire music video... I either end up giving up halfway through, or drawing little boxes for the storyboards and just writing timecode and descriptions since I don't feel like drawing whatever shit's supposed to go there. Ugh, my eva cosplay "storyboards" were FULL of that crap... In the beginnign the drawings were okay, in the middle I got to just lots of words, then it went back to okay, then stick figures... xP

Honestly I think it's kind of a waste to storyboard AMVs. I mean, the stuff is already shot and drawn for you, you just need to put it in the right order.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:18 pm

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ZephyrStar · Post by **ZephyrStar** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:12 am

Depends on what I'm doing, but in tough situations, yes.
And sometimes I also draw a snake and add feet to it, and sometimes a huge arm and some little wings.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:20 am

ZephyrStar wrote:Depends on what I'm doing, but in tough situations, yes.
And sometimes I also draw a snake and add feet to it, and sometimes a huge arm and some little wings.

"the s is for sucks"