It is a fact that very most individuals are unable to visualise a scene for a movie, TELEVISION commercial, training video, sales video, or any other kind of visual production merely from reading the script or a text. Why you need to spend on concept artist for your film project? One reason is concept artist skills is unique from other artist, they have unique ideas that never been existed before.
Present those very same individuals with a photo or picture of some sort and they will grasp the concept immediately. The old expression is that “a picture tells a thousand words” and for many people that holds true. Try, for instance to describe the appeal of a Red Admiral butterfly to someone in words by themselves. Unless your name happens to be Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, or Colleen McCullough, you might discover it very hard attempting to get over to them exactly what it appears like. In truth, you may have a hard time aiming to visualise it for yourself as you try to explain it.
However, present those very same people with a picture or a painting of a Red Admiral and they will get the message instantly.
The Same With A Film Script
It is precisely the exact same with a movie script or a book that you wish to turn into a movie. It can be really hard to discuss to somebody how great your TVC or video is going to be when you only have words to discuss it. In numerous circumstances, they actually cannot “see” it.
What you require is a way of creating an image revealing your idea in a manner where it can immediately be understood by the person or persons to whom you are displaying it.
Enter the freelance storyboard artist. A storyboard artist is someone who has the capability to visualise the concept of a script or other piece of text and turn it into an image or series of images so that it can quickly be understood. In other words, he (or she) can see a picture in his mind’s eye and after that draw it so that anybody can comprehend what is going on in a scene.
An Additional Step
Some people believe that having actually a storyboard developed prior to starting production of a movie or TVC is just an additional action which includes higher cost to the total spending plan and actually isn’t a necessity. Nevertheless, this is far from the reality. Certainly, using a freelance storyboard artist includes a little extra expense, however the time and expense savings in the future can far surpass this.
Your storyboard will reveal each shot of the movie or video in the proper order and will have notes stating what is going on in the shot and describing any script that is being utilized in the scene. This makes it extremely simple to discuss to your prospective customer, your team, or certainly anybody else, how the video will proceed and what it is everything about. Many stakeholders discover it extremely tough to visualise something from a script, however your storyboard reveals them exactly how the video will play out.
It Will Help Considerably When It Comes To Production
Your storyboard will likewise assist considerably when it concerns production. In effect you have created a prepare for shooting your movie or video which consists of all of the various shots, the order in which they occur, and how the script will connect with them. It allows you to thinking your coverage– the numerous cam angles that you will use– and it likewise guarantees that you do not mistakenly leave any scenes out and need to go back to film them later: that of itself might conserve a significant amount of cash if you are filming on place. It will also save you time invested in revisions later if you don’t have a storyboard and something doesn’t quite exercise the manner in which you considered.
Some individuals will inform you that you can create a storyboard by yourself, however it is a lot much easier said than done, specifically if you are not great at drawing. It’s true that you don’t have to be a Picasso given that a bad illustration is better than no illustration, however nevertheless you have to illustrate each shot as properly as possible. You also require to include the script below each drawing with notes about what is going on in that specific shot.
Lots of people merely do not have the abilities to create their own storyboard, so it is far much better to utilize the services of a freelance storyboard artist such as Dean Mortensen who can visualise exactly what it is that you wish to say and then draw the shots properly for you.
Producing Storyboards For 30 Years
Dean Mortensen has been an art director of an ad agency for 30 years, and has been producing storyboards for all 30 of them. He has actually now left the marketing business and is working out on his own as a freelance storyboard artist. He has the unique capability to take a look at your script or text and then create a storyboard revealing each shot exactly as it must look, together with the accompanying notes and script. What’s more, due to the fact that he has been creating storyboards for extremely numerous years he can produce them really quickly when there are time constraints.
Dean has actually produced storyboards for the likes of Revlon, Y & R Group, Avis, Foxtel, Cuddly, Emirates, NSW Transport Maritime, Colgate, Tabcorp, visitnsw.com, BWM, and numerous more. He has actually worked in numerous industries including alcohol, FMCG, tourist, telecoms, retail services, home entertainment, automobile, and sport, amongst numerous others. He has also won distinguished awards consisting of Gold & Bronze Cannes Lions, London International, D & AD, One Show, and New York Festivals.
Dean is readily setup to be assigned freelance jobs from Australia clients, and international assignments with ease. Thanks duly to Dropbox and the world wide web, he is able to work remotely and supply his same standard of quality and accuracy, as if he were just in the next studio, in the next room.
Dean’s storyboards can be created in different styles such as quick line standard, graphic pencil, line and a splash of colour, or exactly what he calls line and the entire caboodle.
So now you understand why you should have a storyboard created and why you should utilize a freelance storyboard artist in order to get the finest results. You can contact Dean at +61-432564690 or email him at scenesbydean@gmail.com.
