Old Mister Glasses Storyboards
February 2nd, 2010I found these two Mister Glasses storyboards in a file marked “Comedy.” The numbers in the corner seem to indicate there were at least 4 of them. Pretty fun, I think.
It’s funny—I used to rather meticulously storyboard my videos, partly because that’s what Steven D. Katz told me to do in Film Directing Shot by Shot. It’s a huge pain in the ass. And looking at these now, I can’t imagine them being a whole lot of help. Did I really need to show very normal head-and-shoulders close-ups in storyboard? I could have just written “CU” on a piece of paper and called it a day. I just got back from LA where I wrote and directed a couple of webseries for Funny or Die and didn’t storyboard a thing*. Sorry Steven D. Katz.
*not entirely true, but for the sake of a clean narrative line in this blog post, let’s assume it’s true.
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Kitty has no hat in your drawing! what does it mean?!
July 17th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I know what you mean. Whenever I sit down to storyboard an idea that’s already formulated in my head for the most part, I often think, “Gee, this is kind of labor-intensive. Maybe I should skip this step?” After all, when you’re filming you always come up with different shots on the fly, and in editing you ultimately change a lot too.
On the other hand, once I’ve completed a set of storyboards, I can really visualize the project a lot better. Plus, even if doesn’t get off the ground, it’s cool to go back and look at them later on.