Story boarding

One of the key aspects of Film-making is the ability to follow and interpret storyboards.

These help you to understand the Director's intentions as a camera operator (where to place the camera), as a Cinematographer (looking at lighting sources etc) and as a basic way of understanding what locations and shots are needed to get the desired effect.

One of the key areas in which all modern films plan is the big budget stunt sequences. Often these are devised using clever computer animation packages commonly referred to as
Pre-viz but often enough the first plans are drawn up using traditional storyboards -