In his book Film Directing Shot by Shot Stephen Katz refers to Maurice Zuberano’s description of storyboards as a “diary of the film”. He is making reference to the storyboards as a reference to future events, but also to the private nature of storyboarding, the personal touch and vision of director, or production illustrator, or both. I struggle with the point of storyboarding being private though. Maybe they are the “diary of the film” but only in the sense of a public diary, a timetable, an agenda for the DoP and production crew.
“Personal” is perhaps a better word to choose than “private”.
Some directors have become well known for their pioneering use of storyboard – Hitchcock was a director famous for his detailed and refined pre-visualisations and whose techniques went onto influence a generation of film-makers in the 1960s and afterwards, people Continue reading
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