Storyboards.... How do you make them?
- Bauzi
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Storyboards.... How do you make them?
Hey there,
I'm just working on a project right now and it's the first time that I really felt that I should write down the scenes of the various animes that I want to use and how some parts of the song definatly should look like. I didn't really do this before, because it was enough to just scrub through the anime in my timeline and pick here and there some scenes. Thought I already knew basic key scenes, but I never really took any notes.
So how do your story boards look like?
I just have some sort of timecode in a textfile and not which scenes should be at that place. This method doesn't really feel good and more inefficient. I hope I can learn something from the stuff you will post in this thread.
Example for a note in my so called storyboard file:
*************************************************
3:36-4:00
scenes on riots; scene changes timed on the main beats
Jin Roh
-Riot scenes
Akira
-Riot scenes (from beginning and end of the anime)
I'm just working on a project right now and it's the first time that I really felt that I should write down the scenes of the various animes that I want to use and how some parts of the song definatly should look like. I didn't really do this before, because it was enough to just scrub through the anime in my timeline and pick here and there some scenes. Thought I already knew basic key scenes, but I never really took any notes.
So how do your story boards look like?
I just have some sort of timecode in a textfile and not which scenes should be at that place. This method doesn't really feel good and more inefficient. I hope I can learn something from the stuff you will post in this thread.
Example for a note in my so called storyboard file:
*************************************************
3:36-4:00
scenes on riots; scene changes timed on the main beats
Jin Roh
-Riot scenes
Akira
-Riot scenes (from beginning and end of the anime)
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- Vivaldi
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... d#p1250636
I mostly just write down key moments in the song where I know I want a certain thing to happen. In between that I improvise.
I mostly just write down key moments in the song where I know I want a certain thing to happen. In between that I improvise.
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
story.... board?
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
I do something similar. Especially for a multi anime video. I'll make a list of the shows that fit my criteria then I'll go over the song and write down what goes through my head and what I want to do where. It's not really story boarding in the traditional sense of drawing out frames. More like brainstorming.
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
I just stare at my shelves stocked full of 150+ anime series and hope something comes to me. Nothing ever gets written down. 

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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
Yah, I kinda just keep a general concept in my head, then stare at my timeline until scenes from the show pop into my head.
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
I imagine the start, the end, and if there's enough footage to cover the rest of the song. If it doesn't, the project fails.
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
I scrub like you. Not come acrossed something where I'd write something down (instead I'd grab the clip and put it on my timeline or... if it immediately didn't fit I'd rename the clip to something I'd HOPEFULLY recognize and leave it lying around somewhere disabled. I constantly make use of the preview individual clips function in premiere (the left preview pane of the monitor). Like castor says I get my titling cues from the song not the anime like it seems you do.
I think the way your doing it is fine though...
I think the way your doing it is fine though...
If you do not think so... you will DIE
- Bauzi
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Re: Storyboards.... How do you make them?
Thanks Vivaldi! Im gonna check it out too
Man... I feel ultra lazy. I just make another Premiere Pro Sequence paste in all episodes and movies. Every source gets one complete track and than I scrub (of course most tracks are disabeled for speed ups). Than I cut scenes out, set markers and that's pretty much it. I leave it as it is so I can come back. Next... another sequence. That's my clip pool. I through in every usefull clips into it.
Yeah I know that a trimmer is great for working, but I like this kind of source scouting much more. I dunno... it feels better to me. Oh and don't really like to render out small clips out of VDM. Most of the time I use DVDs or make complete huge lossless copies of my footage.

Man... I feel ultra lazy. I just make another Premiere Pro Sequence paste in all episodes and movies. Every source gets one complete track and than I scrub (of course most tracks are disabeled for speed ups). Than I cut scenes out, set markers and that's pretty much it. I leave it as it is so I can come back. Next... another sequence. That's my clip pool. I through in every usefull clips into it.
Yeah I know that a trimmer is great for working, but I like this kind of source scouting much more. I dunno... it feels better to me. Oh and don't really like to render out small clips out of VDM. Most of the time I use DVDs or make complete huge lossless copies of my footage.
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