As a follow up to our storyboarding video, Frank covers simple exercises to help you create expressions for your storyboard characters. Whether you draw stick figures or use Storyboarder, adding expressions is as easy as 1, 2, 3. No seriously, 1 for eyebrows, 2 for eyes, 3 for a mouth, you’ve got an expressio
Frank asks you when a storyboard would be helpful and why, and shows how to create storyboards and animatics using paper, the app Paper, and this new, amazing, free program Storyboarder that actually, really works. OMG, he is not joking.
You don’t need to create beautiful storyboards for the world to see, just okay ones that allow you and your editing and team to figure out if the shots you plan to shoot will give you the vision you see in your head.
Cuts and transitions in editing are powerful but it’s easy to forget their importance when we focus on so many aspects of production: cameras, lighting, locations, sound and so on. So we decided to have a little fun and edit a scene three completely different ways, the Jane and Julie scene from our Shot Lists video.
When producing a promo you need a concept in place before you even think about production or preproduction. And before you can come up with that concept you need to sit down with your subject and discover who the target audience is, what needs to be conveyed to them and why the action they want them to take.
Always wanted to create animation but don’t have a 3D studio with a motion capture stage? If you have a room with an HTC Vive VR setup now you do. Spuds show’s off the Steam game Mindshow that’s designed to be a virtual 3D studio. He talks about our past as machinima pioneers the ILL Clan 20 years ago, shows how easy it is to create animation in virtual reality with Mindshow and talks to another version of himself. The man loves to composite, what can I say.
Guerrilla filmmaking means working with what you have to the best of your ability and in the area of lighting, nothing is better than using that great illuminator in the sky the sun. It shines without charge and is tax-free. Let’s talk about ways to leverage it for your interior lighting and how to augment it affordably.
Frank shows you how to light with window daylight, adding a bounce card, daylight balanced fill light and adding an edge light. He also covers how to ensure you buy the right lamps and bulbs to work with natural daylight.
