StoryBoard Investigation

Storyboarding

Last week I finally filmed to study portion of my interview which includes the audio that will be used in the entire film. It took me about 6 attempts to organize everything and finally shoot the multi-cam sequence that included 3 cameras all at different angles, 4 light fixtures, a white backdrop, and my subject. I organized everything from bringing in 3 SD cards, getting all the equipment from the TV Studio to the Light Studio, white balancing, adjusting exposure and aperture,  making sure my image size is the same in all my cameras, setting up the mic, adjusting audio levels, moving around lights, making sure the studio was clear of all other people, and so much more. So it was a major relief to get that out of the way and to finally start working on storyboarding my B-roll. Below is a little investigation on Storyboarding.

Storyboards are a drawn version of the movie and serve as the blueprint for the action and dialogue. Each storyboard artist receives script pages or a "beat outline", a map of the characters' emotional changes that need to be seen through actions. Using these as guidelines, filmogaphers and actors gather a general idea of the story they are trying to depict and transfer it from paper to the screen. It allows the story teller, script writer, or director to show the rest of the staff what they envision the film to be like in a visual way. Hundreds to thousands of storyboards can be drawn up for a movie, sometimes they are just thrown away and the artist starts over again.

Storyboards are used to create story. A storyboard originates from written word; for example from a script. A storyboard artist takes the written word and draws it into pictures. The pictures are then taken and pinned on a board, a storyboard. After all the pictures are pinned to a storyboard, the artist then pitches it to the director. The artist wants to give a sense of what this movie could be like and tries to bring it to life. The aim of a storyboard is to get a feeling of what the story could be like as a final film. The storyboard artist attempts to convey what it would feel like to watch the film in a cinema.

According to YouTube, online videos range in length, anywhere from 42 seconds to over 10 minutes. On average, most fall between 2–4 minutes. Keeping viewers’ attention for that long — especially in this day and age — is incredibly hard to do.B-roll can help. B-roll is the extra footage that surrounds an interview. It’s critically important to plan out this supplemental footage when storyboarding and editing a film. The extra footage can provide different perspectives and dimensions to a story, engage viewers visually and keep their attention in check.Without b-roll, interview-style videos would be dependent on chronological and seamless responses, making it hard to edit out unwanted content. Capturing peripheral shots will help you avoid underwhelming talking head footage — scenes where the main action involves someone talking either right into the camera or just to the side of the camera — and provides editors more options for voiceovers to visually piece together the best story possible.
And b-roll can be just about anything — a stationary shot of leaves swaying in the wind, a moving shot rolling over photographs on a desktop, an over-the-shoulder shot of someone rocking in a chair, historical news clips, vintage videos or timelapses. The options are endless, but they must be relevant to the story you are trying to tell.

I started to story board my B-roll footage and am including times I want to switch clips based on my audio. I also have been including pauses that I will be playing music and further illustrating Jack's words before he resumes talking. Im incorporating a lot of smooth motion and movement to give a more professional look instead of the amateur  interview I put together at the beginning of the year. I've been using the "Tash Sultana" interview as a frame of reference since both interviews are about musicians.

Worklog:
Monday-No School
Tuesday- Reserved studio, Messed around with lighting and camera settings
Wednesday- Went over shooting checklist for filming
Thursday- Filmed interview and cleaned up the audio grain
Friday- Messed around with color correction and started b-roll storyboard