Storyboard and Planning Examples

The Stituation:

You have been hired to storyboard a scene from a play. The writer is shopping the story around to studios and wants a sample of how the project will balance it's possibly conflicting goals. The project is an animated adaptation of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. The concept is to create a film that will bring feature animation style to this classic drama. It should appeal to teens visually and retain the original plot (language?) so that English teachers will choose to use it in class. The plan in to release the film on the Internet (possibly straight to Netflix) and to sell DVDs to schools.

"You have been hired because of your experience with storyboarding and the fact that you are a member of the target viewing group. If your storyboard helps bring a studio onto the project there is the possibility of continued work in stroyboarding the rest of the film. This could keep you busy and pay your rent for months.

"The client expects superior work and will require several drafts before the job is complete."

Show Joe Ranft's Storyboard on the art of storyboarding. And remind students that they saw it in the screen direction lesson. Read through it together and highlight the rewriting.

An Example of Joe's Process in creating his storyboards for the clients Project