Saturday, March 5, 2022

Storyboarding: It's Like a Boring Comic Book

I've just finished creating a visual outline of what I want to include in my production, despite the warnings of all my friends who are much more experienced in TV production than me.  Although they all like to say that storyboards are time-consuming and ultimately useless (which, to be fair, they're probably right), I kind of enjoy the process.  It gives me time to brainstorm ideas, uncover cool production techniques that I can implement, and it facilitates editing overall.

Thus, I got to work on making one.  Although I'll most likely end up changing a lot of the shots I originally included (mostly by fixing composition, duration, or the order of events), it serves as a great outline.  Here it is below:

With this finished, I'm close to being done with pre-production.  I plan to begin filming next weekend, although I fear that I won't have much time considering that I'm pretty much fully booked.  However, I can get ahead by recording Joseph's monologue, since this can be done quickly and remotely.  When I timed myself reading the monologue, it averaged 1:35 minutes.  Hopefully, when Joey reads it, it remains around the same time.  Since the monologue already makes up about 3/5 of the overall production, I can't risk it going over the 1:40 minute mark.  Wish me luck!

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