Martyn - Research

In this project, as such with any media based project, each member involved must be assigned a role to perform, in front and behind the camera, after discussing this at length our group has decided upon these roles; Leonie, as the strongest writer among us, shall take upon the role of scriptwriter as we all agreed that with her knowledge of descriptive and emotive language will greatly enhance the quality of our script, i myself shall use my artistic skills as the groups storyboarder, which shall be easier on the group as they wont have to worry about artistic effect as i have all the creativity and knowledge needed to fill the role from doing A level art, however craig and becky were undecided about which role they should take when i had last spoken to them as for now i understand it that Craig is going to be the director and Becky is going to be in charge of editing, now for this decision i think it is a good one as i feel craig has the leadership skills needed to control the group and becky has a certain air about her which shows to me that she is capable of editing to a high standard.

I have been preparing myself for my role as storyboarder i have been looking into general art and animation forms to do with storyboarding in hollywood films and looking up the basic roles of a storyboarder. From what i have researched i have found that a storyboard is a type of graphic organizer used to pre-visualize either a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, usually in the form of illustrations or images displayed in a sequence, and was first used as we know it today by Walt Disney Studios during the early 1930's.

The role of the Storyboader
A storyboarder, or storyboard artist as they are sometimes refered to, is responsible for the graphic or visual representation of the script to a film or animation, thereby preventing the time wasted by filming scenes which aren't needed in the final production and reducing filming requirements from the entire production.

• A storyboaders work is as follows;
• Receiving a copy of the original script
• Breaking down the scrpit into individual categories, such as characters, props and backgrounds
• Drawing out initial sketches of the scenes provided by the script
• Allow time for edits to be made with the script and initial storyboards
• Enhancing through use of different artist techniques
• Presenting final storyboards to the director

( http://www.jobprofiles.org/artfilm4.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard )

I am looking forward to this project as it will give me the chance to look into different techniques outside traditional art.