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Visualising Shots Storyboarding for Film and Video

Visualising shots: Storyboarding for Film and Video

A four-day course over two consecutive weekends for anyone with visualisation skills who wants to gain an insight into how to become a freelance storyboard artist or wants to work in production design.
Storyboarding is a pivotal stage in any production, where the director and his camera and design teams realise their vision shot by shot. The participants will be introduced to the workings of film grammar - how to perceive a shot list and the narrative pace of the story being told. This will cover the interior and location settings of the production, realising the camera's movement, light settings and actors' movements. Participants will be given practical exercises in storyboarding and the end of the course will concentrate on storyboarding more complex scenes within a production such as stunt sequences (e.g. car chases) and crowd sequences (e.g. battle scenes). Participants will need basic drawing skills.

The course tutor is experienced story-board artist Jason Carlin who works as an Art Director and Production Designer. He has numerous feature film and television credits including the UK Film Council feature ONE FOR THE ROAD, BAFTA and EMMY award-winning BBC drama, STIG OF THE DUMP and popular BBC series Waking the Dead. He has recently finished working on Kenny Glennan's first feature film, YASMINE. Jason also designed the short film GONE which won the BBC New Filmmaker Award 2003. Jason has taught at the National Film School and at Wimbledon and Kingston Colleges.

Dates: The next course dates are to be confirmed.
Time: 10am ? 5pm
Cost: ?220 / ?180 concession

Session One:
Introduction into storyboarding and the grammar of film-making.
Realisation of storytelling and the moving image.
Technical aspects of storyboarding.
Practical Workshop ? storyboarding from a shot list.
Guest Speaker: (1st AD) will speak on the practicalities of both the storyboard and the production.

Session Two:
Focusing on specific complex storyboarding scenes.
Guest Speakers (Director and Camera) will speak on their needs from the storyboard, changing shots and the logistics of storytelling and the moving image.
Practical Workshop ? the Tutor will oversee the students storyboarding of complex stunt and crowd scenes and opening sequences.

At the end of this course, the students will take away their final storyboarding work achieved in the workshops.