Ice BreakerDirections: complete the following on a blank sheet of paper. Be prepared to share your answer with your group as well as the rest of the class.

• Imagine the opening scene of your safety video. • Write out exactly what you see.

Draw what you see…The THUNDEROUS SOUNDS OF A MASSIVE NAVAL BARRAGE are heard. The power is astonishing. It roars through the body, blows back the hair and rattles the ears.

The ROAR OF NAVAL GUNS continues but now WE SEE THEM FIRING. Huge fifteen inch guns.

SWARM OF LANDING CRAFT Heads directly into a nightmare.

MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS from German artillery shells and mined obstacles tear apart the beach.

Hundreds of German machine guns, loaded with TRACER BULLETS, pour out in a red snowstorm.

THE CLIFFS at the far end, a ninety-foot drop. Topped by bunkers. Ringed by fortified machine gun nests.  A clear line-of-fire down the entire beach.

When writing a script• Write visually• Use action words• He moved across the room.• He RACED across the room.• He DRAGGED across the room.

• Short sentences.

As a group…• Pick a scene in you what to have in your safety video.• Write out the basic script for that scene.• What do you SEE, what do you HEAR

• Don’t include specific dialogue… that can be added in later

StoryboardingObjective: Effectively communicate your ideas & script to images and actions on paper.

Storyboarding… advanced planning techniques?

• Imagine the shot you want to create• Background• Characters• Motion or Action

• Allows you and others to see what you are thinking… Communicate Effectively

Camera Shots

• Different camera angles allow the director to highlight different things.

• Extremely long shots Extreme Close Ups

Extreme Long Shots• The camera is far away from the subject.• Shows the environment or setting the characters are in.• Can introduce the audience to new locations that the

characters are in.

Long Shots• Closer than an extreme long shot.• Generally shows the full body as well as natural space

above and below them.• Shows a character as the main focus.

Medium Shots• Not the full body.• Staring around the waist and knees.• Only part of the character is the focus of the shot.

Close Ups• The Character from the shoulders up.• This one part is very important.• Specific Action.

Extreme Close Ups• A very small part of a subject is visible.• Focuses your eyes to 1 part of the image.

Zooming In, Zooming Out, and Motion

• How can you draw a series of motions in one picture? YOU CAN’T!

• Create the first image/view• Draw an arrow• Create the last image/view

Panning & Tilting

• Moving the camera side/side or up/down.• Changing the view of the camera with changing the entire

scene.• Works good with

conversations.• Arrows show camera

movement.

Tracking

• Shows action in a scene, but keeps the character in the middle of the shot.

• Arrow shows movement of the camera and character.

Revealing

• An action that starts off screen but comes into view.• Keeps the focus on the scene, not the actor.

Story Board Apps• Cinemek Storyboard Composer• Apple iOS only

• Shot Designer• Apple iOS• Andriod OS

Today’s AssignmentDirections: As a group, create the storyboard for your safety video.• Different types of shots• 2 long shots• 2 medium shots• 2 close ups• 1 extreme close up

• Zoom In once & Zoom Out once• Action & Audio for each shot