The process of storyboarding can be very time-consuming and itricate. It was first developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930's, and was the first completed storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short 'Three Little Pigs'. Disney however creditied animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on seperate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard. The second studio in early 1935 to switch from "story skecthes" to storyboard was Walter Lantz Productions, and by 1938 all studios were using storyboards. In 1939 'Gone with the wind' was one of the first live action films to be completely storyboarded. Storyboards are now an essential part of the creation progress. Within film espeically a storyboard, is seen as a large blueprint of the film which is produced beforehand to help film directors, cinematographers and TV commerical advertisisng clients to visualize the scenes and find any potional problems before they occure. Within a storyboard movment is indicated through the use of arrows. A stoaryboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen trhough the camera lens. In the process, most technical details can be efficently described either in picture or additional text. The directors Joel and Ethan Coen, use storyboard extensively before taking a pitch to their funders, stating that it helps them to get the support they require as it allows them to show exactly where the money will be used. Alfred Hitchcock's films are also strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail. Akira Kurosawa was known, particularly in his later years, for the extensive detail in his stoaryboarding, for example for Ran he storyboarded every shot and are regarded as fine works of art in themselves. However in contrast other directors storyboard only certain scenes and some none at all. Animation directors are usually required to storyboard, as it is sometimes used in place of writing a script. As I am planning on little or no dialogue for my short film, my storyboard will be an essential way of communicating what shots I plan to use, the camera movements, the transistion ect.
I have now began the development of my storyboard, within my storyboard I have included an image of what I want the layout to be for my shot (I say sorry now for my awful drawing), the angle that I will use, the camera movement that I have indicatied through arrows, the characters involved and sound that will be used during the shot
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