In order to help us film, we created storyboards, which show what should be seen in each shot. We decided the best way to display these would be to upload the storyboards into Final Cut and turn it into a video, which meant we could even add in zoom effects and other transitions to represent when the camera was going to zoom etc., along with text to help illustrate our ideas better where our drawings failed us!
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We also created a shooting script, which was not just the shots we wanted to use, but in the right order for filming – this makes the process a lot easier and reduces the risk of continuity errors, particularly with weather and lighting. If you wanted to film a shot outside, and shot inside, then another outside, the lighting would’ve changed and made it inconsistent. A shooting script stops this from happening.
We used a typewriter font in ours to stick with our slightly older 1970s theme!
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