1. Pre-Production 3:
Scripting and Storyboarding
SJSJ Grade 8 Technology Class
March 2012

2. Planning Your Transitions
• Bars • Blur Effect
• Checkerboard • Brightness Effect
• DirectX Media Wipe • Fade Effect
• Dissolve • Film Aging Effect
• Fade • Filter Effects
• Iris • Mirror and Grayscale
• Pixelate Effects
• SMPTE Wipe • Pixelate Effect
• Wheel • Speed Effects

3. Planning Your Audio
• Direct sound • Selective Sound
– Live sound. – Add or remove sound
– Not always ideal – Ex: ticking bomb
• Studio sound • Sound Bridge
– Recorded in studio – Continue across cut
– Improve sound quality – Use for continuity
– Eliminating ambient • Dubbed dialogue
sound
• Wildtrack (asynchronous)
– Dubbed dialogue
– Deliberately recorded
– Can be mixed with live separately from scene and
environmental sound then added

4. Scripting vs. Storyboarding
• Script: • Storyboard
– Written text of a stage – Series of panels on which a
play, screenplay or broadcast set of sketches is arranged to
depict the important changes
of scene and action in a
series of shots
– A visual script

5. Considerations
• Your Audience
– Students? Parents? Young
Children? Other?
• Length of Film
• Message
– Persuasive? Informative?
Entertaining?

6. Scripting
• The dialogue and narration
• The action
• The talent
• The scene and setting
• The sound effects and music
• The graphics and credits
• The special props

7. Use the Script to
• Coordinate location shots and plan sets
• Choose the actors and actresses
• Decide on props, graphics, sound effects
and music
• Assign production crew tasks

8. Why Storyboard?
• Brainstorm ideas
• Visualize finished product
• Save time
• Plan camera and sound (Production)
• Plan edits (Post Production)
• Keep everyone on the same page
• Spot opportunities for camera shots

9. What to Include in
Storyboard
• Timing for each scene
• Who will appear in each scene?
• Camera Shots (Close up, two shot, wide, POV, etc)
• Camera Movement (Pan, tilt, zoom, etc)
• Lighting
• Cuts and effects between scenes
• Music and sound effects
• Any special effects?
• Number scenes and sections of storyboard

10. Keep in Mind the 5 W’s
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?

11. Storyboarding

12. Storyboarding

13. Points to Remember
• Storyboards don’t have to be perfect
• Use simple sketches—stick
figures, circles, lines, etc.
• You may use a graphics drawing program or
other application
• Just depict major scenes.

14. What’s Next
• Individual Storyboards
• Team collaborates to create a script, storyboard
and pitches to have it produced

15. Questions?