Creating A Storyboard

Today in Mr.Murphy's lesson we discussed creating a storyboard for a short movie of our choice. The storyboard has to be 10-12 ' scenes long. We used software such as 'Film Sense' and 'MMMS'.
These helped us to find out different camera angles and the effect they give when used, and when used in collaboration with other shots. 


We discussed:

Framing - How big the subject is in the shot

Angle - Whether the camera is above or below the subject

Framing

• Establishing shot - These are used to set the scene and then moves closer to give us more information 
• Wide Shot - The subject is small in the scene
• Long Shot - The subject is moving closer, you can tell more about the person but you can see less of the setting
• Three-Quarter Shot - Shows most of the body
• Mid Shot - Shows a figure from the waist upwards
• Medium Close Up - Close ups show facial expressions, in a medium close up you can see the shoulders as well.
• Close up - Shows just the head, and sometimes the tops of the shoulders

Angle

• High Angle - Shots with the camera above the subject can often make the character look more vulnerable
• Low Angle - Shots with the camera below the subject can make people look more powerful
• Birdseye - The camera shot is directly above the scene
• Canted Angle - Everything is set at an angle, this make make things look strange or scary

Here are two examples of storyboards, which should give me an idea of how to lay mine out.

This camera work should also help me for when i take my front cover shots for my music magazine, it should help me use different camera angles for effect.