Storyboarding For Film Video And Animation Short Course
Course description
Course overview
A storyboard can be a work of art, a multi-layered piece of visual poetry that moves an audience. It can help ensure that an audience laughs, cries, screams and cheers in all the right places. It can be powerfully thought provoking, communicating complex ideas in an elegantly simple way and can improve other folks' scripts tenfold, adding subtext, humour, pacing and more.
This short course aims to help you communicate your ideas and create engaging storyboards - be they for animation, live action, narrative-based content, factual, music videos, advertising or more abstract works. It is designed to provide you with the foundational knowledge necessary to work in the industry and/or as an independent filmmaker, with bespoke advice and tuition tailored to your needs.
Each lesson will consist of lectures, (including a wide variety of in depth live-action and animation clip analysis), practical exercises and feedback. The tutor encourages a fun relaxed atmosphere and provides detailed handouts for each topic covered. It will provide you with essential skills and knowledge, that not only will improve your work as a storyboard artist, but as a storyteller and director, too.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone, aged 18 and older, interested in creating engaging live action and or animation. No drawing experience is necessary. We will be working loosely on paper and concentrating on honing storyboard direction skills.
Storyboarding suits generalists, and this course reflects that. It is essentially a filmmaking course, combined with some illustration and screenwriting lessons. It is designed for beginners but can accommodate those with a little experience.
Key information
Topics covered
- Basic process of telling stories using sequential images
- Informally analyse and discuss each other's storyboards and learn the fundamentals together
- Subsequent exercises and presentations will introduce important technical information (the fundamentals of film grammar and cinematic storytelling, narrative pacing, scene-setting, depicting camera moves, lenses, etc.)
- Work with a section of a provided film script to produce a finished sequence
- Concentrate on the elements of storyboarding that are personally most relevant to their needs
Learning outcomes
- Have a basic drawing and composition 'toolkit' to help you translate your ideas into pictures
- Have an insight into both animation and live action pipelines, processes and crew roles
- Have experience of working with a professional script
- Have foundational knowledge of screenwriting and storytelling principles
- Have analysed a wide variety of professional storyboards
- Developed your directing skills
- Be able to emotionally manipulate your audience
- Be able to avoid expensive and embarrassing common beginner mistakes
- Understand how to add rhythm and pace to your storyboard
- Have a deeper understanding of telling stories with pictures: how shot sizes, angles, camera moves, and other filmic tools can add so much meaning to your work
- Have a deeper understanding of film theory and grammar
- Be able to annotate your storyboard with industry standard makings, terminology and abbreviations
- Gain invaluable knowledge of script visualisation and the processes involved in completing a professional storyboard
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- 2B pencils
- Pencil sharpener
- Eraser
- Ruler
- A4 or A3 sketchbook
- Any other drawing materials you wish to use
Tutor
Kate Sullivan
Kate Sullivan is an award-winning animator/designer/director and documentary filmmaker. Since graduating from the Character Animation PG Cert (now MA) at CSM, she's worked on a wide variety of high-profile content. Clients include Cartoon Network, BBC, Ch4, Zeekay Junior, CITV CBeebies, CBBC, Google and NBC. Recent work includes designing and animating titles, credits and establishers for BBC2's Upstart Crow, character animation for Doctor Who and films for renowned journalist, Misha Glenny. As an independent documentary filmmaker, she has won many awards and gained much critical acclaim. Her work has been displayed in galleries and film festivals around the world. Kate is currently creating an animated documentary project about the creator world's first computer generated cartoon character.Book a course
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