Storyboarding for film and animation

City Lit

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

All film making professionals use storyboards as an essential part of their pre-production planning. It’s not only crucial for deciding on your shots and ensuring the narrative is realised effectively but it’s also invaluable for communicating your ideas to collaborators, funding bodies and clients. On this short practical course you will learn the importance of storyboarding in developing an effective sequence. You will learn about different shot types and camera movements, their uses and how to describe them in visual and written form in a storyboard. You will also learn how to incorporate notes and information about
sound, action and timing.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- understand the function of storyboards within professional film practice
- understand the structure of narrative
- describe different shot types and camera movements using the correct terminology
- create a storyboard that effectively communicates a narrative sequence.

The latest professional equipment and software are available for your use throughout the course. It would be useful to bring a memory stick (or portable hard drive – please note PC formatted hard drives can be read by Apple mac computers, but not written to.).

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Subjects

  • Storyboarding
  • Camera
  • Sound
  • Animation

Course programme

- The professional uses of storyboards in film and animation
- Narrative structure
- The terminology and uses of different shot types, camera angles and camera movements
- Describing your shots visually and in written form
- Describing sound and action.

You will be taught using a range of techniques including workshops, short lectures, demonstrations, practical exercises, group and individual assistance and hand-outs. Please note the City Lit uses Apple Mac computers in Animation, Cartooning, Digital arts, Film, Graphics, Illustration, Photography and Web design.

Additional information

You can further develop your skills and interest in Film and Video through a range of courses at the City Lit in digital film making, editing and animation. You can also enhance your work through a range of sound design courses at city lit. You can find the outlines of courses available by entering the subject you’re interested in in the search box of the City Lit website at General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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