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(female voiceover). A storyboard is a
shot-by-shot plan of everything in a movie.
They give the creator a visual of how the movie will unfold.
Now once the visual starts to form, the types of shots
needed to match it are identified.
Now creating a storyboard for you movie before you ever pick
up a video camera, really has huge benefits.
It will help you develop a complete story within your
movie, by that I mean a beginning, a middle and an end,
you'll know exactly what shots you need.
This will be a big time saver when you do pick up the video
camera you'll know exactly what needs to be filmed.
If you add a script to your storyboard, actors in your movie
will sound more professional and be less likely to
stumble over words during filming too.
Now iMovie 11 has a feature called: Animatics that can be
used to build and print a storyboard.
To use it, you have to create a new project.
So we'll go up to file and new project, and I'll go ahead and
name mine, Animatics.
I'll leave everything else the same and go ahead and click
create, and then I'll go over here to the media browser
buttons on your tool bar on the far right side, and I'll click
on the one that says: "Show or hide map, background and
animatic browser."
Click on that and if you'll scroll down all the way to the
bottom, you'll start to see black and gray images;
some with people, some without.
Some close up, some far away, and you can use
these to build your storyboard.
If I know that I want to start my story in my video with a
close-up of a man, then I'll go ahead and add that animatic.
By default each one of these is four-seconds long.
If I know that I want that to be longer, I just go into
the blue action wheel right there, click on
adjustments and change the duration.
I'll change this to eight-seconds so you can
see and enter that and then click "done."
Let's say the next thing I want to show is man's best friend.
I'm going to show the actors animal, so add that in there and
then after that, I will probably want to show them location in
which they are being filmed.
So I'm starting to create a little storyboard here with the
types of shots now that I know I need to go film.
A couple cool things about this is, one, you can print this.
You can go up to file, print project, now my laptop is not
connected to a printer, so I'm not going to have the ability to
show you a preview, but it will give you the ability to print
this off and that can be handy.
You can take it with you and jot down notes, or maybe show other
people the story board that don't have iMovie.
The other thing that you can do is, whenever you get your
storyboard created and you know the types of shots that you need
to go film, let's say you brought film in and you've
brought them in to an event, once your video clips are in an
event--I'll go ahead and close this browser so we will have
more room for the event to show--once I have my video clips
I can click on the video clip and just simply drag and drop
this video clip right over the appropriate animatic.
Now something you saw right here, I dropped the video on top
of the specific animatic and I have some options.
Replace from start will preserve the timing of the animatic, so
you remember I changed that to eight seconds, so that will give
me eight seconds of this video that I brought up.
If I just choose replace, it will use the timing
of the clip that is selected.
So down here I think it just shows four seconds of a clip,
let's see.
So if I click replace, I just get the four seconds that I
originally chose down here and you can also see exactly what
frames I'm using.
They're indicated right there by that orange bar, those are
frames that I'm using up in my project.
So instead of creating a whole new project--once you have your
storyboard complete--just simple drag and drop
and replace the shots.
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