Storyboards

Before you even go out to shoot your film, the first thing that you need to do is the pre-production stages, and one of those major stages is the storyboard stage. A storyboard is a visualization of the shots that you want to film in the future. Storyboards can range from just small sketches on a paper to larger more complicated drawings, showing characters and actions in depth. Creating a storyboard is an important step in filmmaking because it can give the director a clearer vision of what the film has in store for the future: they help with planning out difficult shots or angles. The script also plays a very important role in the creation of storyboards. The script is somewhat of an outline for the storyboard, an outline of an outline. The script and storyboard are then put together during the shooting phase of production, leading to the filming of scenes.