And So Year Two Began... Story Boarding

So for our first project we had to create two storyboards.
For the first we had to choose a 30 second clip from a trailer and then create the story board from that. Then once we had mastered that we were given a script from an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We each had a page and had to story board that, as you would in industry.

To begin with, i had to choose the trailer. After much deliberation, I gave in and chose the 'How To Train Your Dragon' trailer. It had a many varied shots and well, lets face it, its an amazing movie. Plus i would be drawing this for days and the style inst far off from mine, it made sense.

Now, onto thumb nailing. This was to help me plan out my shots and the timing of them. Though the shots were already decided upon (as the trailer is done and there, im not making it) it wasn't too difficult. The hard part was deciding on how to make the shots as clear as possible. Though that probably doesn't come across in thumbnails because they are just scribbles. But really only I need to understand them.

After everything was planned, into the final thing. These are still rough drawings, but as they are story boards they shouldn't be works of art. They are to get information across. Though professional story board artists manage to make even their scribbles look make masterpieces.(how very jealous I am of their skills)

I really enjoyed doing this. Its was super fun and i definitely would like to story board more in the future. I would have liked to spend more time on this one, but i think it did its job.

Im going to post a part two to this because with all my scribbles its gotten to be a rather large post. That will be up shortly.