Day 19: Storyboarding 101

Hi there!! I hope all is well, and I cannot even fathom how deep we are into this project already. Tomorrow wraps up week 3 of our portfolio projects and today I finished my storyboard and script! Well, my script isn't an official script yet, but I'll be doing some research as well to transform it. 

Storyboarding is an essential part of creating a film, short story, or anything that you need to film or animate in general. Creating a storyboard, no matter how artistically talented you are, helps you easily visualize the final product, and each of the shots you need to get. 

When visualizing Maia: Unfiltered, I started by having no idea what I wanted it to look like. One night, I was trying to fall asleep, but I started to see the idea actually come to life. I rushed to my desk and quickly jotted down all of my ideas so that they wouldn't escape me before morning. On the left, you can see that version of my storyboard, but today I finished the official one. 

Below, you can see the completed storyboards, with a rough description of each shot. Once, you see the script, hopefully you'll be able to see the vision a bit clearer. As you can see, the first shot is pretty much exactly like the shot in Killing Eve, as well as the tight closeup from Juno (shot 7).

Finally, moving on to the screenplay. To write a proper screenplay, I watched this video by StudioBinder on YouTube.

Then, I used StudioBinder's Screenplay writing tool to write up my script. After watching the video, all of the tools on the screenplay tool made sense to me, and now I hopefully have a full-functioning script. In the video, they mention that each page of the script should represent roughly a minute of the production, and my script is exactly 2 pages, so it should amount to 2 minutes (Perfect for this project!!) Now, I've created my official script and having the full script done in the exact formatting as professional scripts, makes me feel so official and excited. I've inserted my full script below.

I found it really interesting to learn about the different parts of a screenplay and the fact that I found most interesting was the one about "Rainbow Scripts". I think it is so cool that there is a specific color of paper per script revision, which can build up to create a rainbow script. Both the storyboard and script are subject to change, but right now, I'm very happy with how they turned out.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and I'll catch you all on the next one!