Drawing frame by frame scenes? Anyone do this?

TimChan

TimChan

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Hey everyone, so I'm to filmmaking and I just released my first short film posted on Youtube not too long ago. For my first short film, I wrote a script and a few outlines and that is it.

There is another method of drawing out your frames piece by piece almost like a comic book. I'm just curious does anyone do this? Because a blueprint for a film can change especially during shooting or in post production so is drawing out frames beneficial? It seems to take a long of time.

Any reply would be appreciated, thank you :)
 
Well if you're talking about animation, I make mine in Flash and draw the background once on a different layer, and then all the characters on their own layers, which yes, I draw frame by frame.
 
Yes planning! Sorry failed to mention that.

Sorry to ask a lot of question, but is it highly detailed in what you have in your outline or is it just vague and in your mind you know what your doing anyways.
 
That's called a storyboard, however they aren't usually drawn for every frame, only for every shot :)
 
Storyboard! Thanks! Lol completely forgot the name of it. I'll do more research into it...just wondering if there are any Youtube filmmakers that does this. I know bigger productions does this for sure
 
TimChan said:
Storyboard! Thanks! Lol completely forgot the name of it. I'll do more research into it...just wondering if there are any Youtube filmmakers that does this. I know bigger productions does this for sure
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No problem :p
I'm not sure about storyboard, but i'd guess some might at least use a shot list/script!
As for the "what if the storyboard gets changed in post", well the aim of one is to help you out with shooting your video, it can always be changed!
 
Styxie said:
No problem :p
I'm not sure about storyboard, but i'd guess some might at least use a shot list/script!
As for the "what if the storyboard gets changed in post", well the aim of one is to help you out with shooting your video, it can always be changed!
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Aweomse post! Thanks for this. I used a shot list for my first short film, but I never really used it while shooting cause in my mind I knew what I wanted. But just to be safe in case I forget I figured my next short film I should use a storyboard and be more detailed in it.
 
TimChan said:
Aweomse post! Thanks for this. I used a shot list for my first short film, but I never really used it while shooting cause in my mind I knew what I wanted. But just to be safe in case I forget I figured my next short film I should use a storyboard and be more detailed in it.
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Just gave your first a look, pretty damn impressive! If you keep that up you'll do good in the future :)
 
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