Commercial Storyboarding

Storyboards

For the past few days or so, me and my group have been working together on a detailed storyboard for our commercial project. Together with one of my partners, I wrote a really specific script so that we could be ready to film in a week. I included camera angles, all the dialogue, camera movements, sound, and so on. That way, it wouldn't be too difficult to make our storyboard. We gave the responsibility mainly to Jaheim, since his main role in our group is being the camera man and main artist. After about one and a half class periods, the storyboard was completed quickly in about two template pages. Of course.. we also had to make another one for our back-up plan in case of there being any weather issues on our filming day, which is probably why it took us so long to finish up the art. If it weren't for that, our time spent on it most likely would've been cut in half, but I guess it is necessary that we have a blueprint for our plan B just so that we can visualize it. Just the period before, we all met up together and realized that we completely forgot to finish one part. Unfortunately, we did forget to color the storyboards, so we had to rush and just use bits of green pen for the grass, red for the color of our track, and so on. Luckily for us, we ended up having some time in class afterwards to finish up our pages to show to our teacher. We actually started on the storyboard much earlier than we were meant to, so besides the coloring aspect, we literally had nothing left to do and we ended up just working on other assignments that were going to be due later in the day. Before the bell rang, we went up to our teacher and asked for approval of our storyboard just so that we could know if it was okay or not. If he didn't approve, it would've been pretty awkward considering the fact that if there happened to be a problem with your storyboard, you wouldn't be able to film until the moment you fixed it. If you still don't have it fixed then, it's likely that you won't be getting a very good grade for the project. On the bright side, we got approved immediately, and our teacher even went so far as to say that it was one of the best storyboards hes ever seen! At least... for a group of people who had never done it before. We all had a mini celebration together, and now we're just preparing for our filming time next class.