From the course: Learning Cinematography: 2 Working on Set
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Storyboards
- So Han's doing some lighting here. So while that's going on, I'm going to work with the director to talk about storyboards. Now these are the director's boards, and the function of these and the most useful thing about them is it gets me inside the director's head. It gives me an idea of the kinds of things, the context of the scene that we're going to be shooting. So I'm engaging in a conversation about this, and keeping in mind the fact that we'll never shoot the boards. The boards are disposable. That's why they're just stick figures and kind of rough outlines of what we're going to be doing, and the real thing that happens is the director actually uses these to articulate what he wants out of the scene. Okay. So that's the office? - [Director] Yeah. - Is that what that is? - [Director] This is the office here. Main points here would be that this should all be very cool, and we need to show the text message that he receives, it leads into this scene here. Then I would like this…
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