*ੈ✩‧₊˚ Story Board of Harry Potter ‧₊˚✩彡
I am so excited to have you guys back on another blog of mine! I hope this one is just as well received as my last one <3
Today, I will be talking about MY experience storyboarding one of my favorite fight scenes from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
Movie Clip
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Story Board
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I hope you guys enjoyed looking at my story board and are inspired to create your own!My Experience
This was my very first time story boarding, and BOY was it an EXPERIENCE! Not easy, I tell you. I have never done this before so I probably made some mistakes or was not efficient enough in my process. However, I am proud of the results and the efforts I put into making this project come to life! I know you do not need to be great at drawing (I know I am not), but I am still a little embarrassed at how amateur they look especially the anatomy and perspective. A few things that I have learned after this was that story boarding takes TIME. It is not something you can get done in a few minutes. You can spend literal HOURS on a few frames that only make up 10 seconds of a minute-long clip, so you have to be patient! Another thing is to not feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the scene or the lengthiness of the project as long as you keep pushing through you will complete it! Just believe in yourself and your own capabilities and you WILL push through! Honestly, this whole process taught me diligence, perseverance, bravery, and most importantly: time management. I only did a story board of a clip that was around 2 minutes long, but it took LITERALLY forever. In the end, it was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears as now I have something to be proud of!
Story boarding is important because it helps to visualize a scene and figure out how it is going to play out on paper rather than in your head as sometimes you may miss some things if you do NOT write them down. It also prevents you from making expensive mistakes as you will not need to buy anything to test out a potential scene. In addition, it will let you KNOW that it is THE scene for that moment when you have all the pieces of the puzzle laid out in front of you as one cohesive piece instead of several snapshots of a story.
Like I mentioned previously, story boarding is a difficult process, especially for newbies like me. If you are not disciplined and willing to put in effort, you will face the biggest challenge of story boarding—THE AMOUNT OF WORK. Other struggles may include a lack of artistic ability, an inability to express the atmosphere you are trying to create properly or TOO little or TOO many details. Not being able to draw is not that huge of a challenge as you can work around it by being more descriptive in your descriptions. The WORST problem is when you cannot express what you imagine as you do not know how to effectively utilize shots, angles, etc. (fortunately, I did not have this problem). The ONLY solution to this problem is to just study! Study how famous directors and animators compose their shots and scenes and take notice of what they use in order to convey certain emotions or create effects. The last problem is also not that big of a deal as it is something you can easily fix. Too little detail? Just add more! Envision the world and what you are trying to create with this scene; put yourself into the shoes of the characters! Too much detail? Just clean up your story board and make sure the MAIN point is being conveyed; NO unrelated tangents.
Overall, I think this was a fun experience trying to draw out all the cuts from one of my favorite clips from a beloved movie of mine. I really enjoyed analyzing and picking apart what the directors were thinking when they composed this very scene!
Story boarding is important because it helps to visualize a scene and figure out how it is going to play out on paper rather than in your head as sometimes you may miss some things if you do NOT write them down. It also prevents you from making expensive mistakes as you will not need to buy anything to test out a potential scene. In addition, it will let you KNOW that it is THE scene for that moment when you have all the pieces of the puzzle laid out in front of you as one cohesive piece instead of several snapshots of a story.
Like I mentioned previously, story boarding is a difficult process, especially for newbies like me. If you are not disciplined and willing to put in effort, you will face the biggest challenge of story boarding—THE AMOUNT OF WORK. Other struggles may include a lack of artistic ability, an inability to express the atmosphere you are trying to create properly or TOO little or TOO many details. Not being able to draw is not that huge of a challenge as you can work around it by being more descriptive in your descriptions. The WORST problem is when you cannot express what you imagine as you do not know how to effectively utilize shots, angles, etc. (fortunately, I did not have this problem). The ONLY solution to this problem is to just study! Study how famous directors and animators compose their shots and scenes and take notice of what they use in order to convey certain emotions or create effects. The last problem is also not that big of a deal as it is something you can easily fix. Too little detail? Just add more! Envision the world and what you are trying to create with this scene; put yourself into the shoes of the characters! Too much detail? Just clean up your story board and make sure the MAIN point is being conveyed; NO unrelated tangents.
Overall, I think this was a fun experience trying to draw out all the cuts from one of my favorite clips from a beloved movie of mine. I really enjoyed analyzing and picking apart what the directors were thinking when they composed this very scene!
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