The idea of planning just seems wrong in the shoes of a teenager, but as we begin to learn and expand upon not only our lives, but our video making abilities, planning is crucial to success. In “The Perfect Plan: Storyboard and Shot List Creation“It does not give us new knowledge per say, but reinforces what we know. From writing a script that is exciting, riveting and leads to character names and scenes that are neither generic or repetitive.
The major idea brought up, is the use of image with writing to allow for a more precisely found image and to create a final product more closely related to the visions of the creator. Neither sketching, nor writing is enough, color is also just as important. The writing brings an idea to life, sketching allows for the vision to be brought into a visible form, but color knocks it out of the park. With color and sketch, scripts can be taken to a whole other level since it allows for better understanding when looking for actors and shot locations.
In conclusion, one will expand and increase their proficiency while making movies or videos if the plan out their scripts, write and edit it, but also adding colored sketches allows for everything to fall quickly into place. From knowing what camera angles to take, what shots to do together and where to shoot increases the speed at which you can produce your film more accurately to the creators first vision. Lastly Julia Camenisch (the author of this article) restates the old saying that practise makes perfect and by heading these ideas, you can become a better film maker!
Nice review. I hope everyone takes the time to read this article and realize Shaw isn't crazy and she actually knows what she is talking about! 😛