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Talking Pictures: Assembling a Leica, Story Reel or Animatic with a Scratch Track

Congratulations! You have just pitched your boards and character concepts and had them approved—possibly with a few small ‘tweaks’.

After a feature film sequence has been reviewed in a turnover session a small removable sticker is placed in one corner of each storyboard drawing indicating the sequence, scene, and drawing number (Figure 19–1). Shorter films can have the scene and drawing numbers written directly on the boards, as shown in the second panel of Figure 19–1. Boards that are drawn on paper only receive final numbers after the turnover since they may have been rearranged during the pitch and some panels may have been removed. Before this time, numbers ...

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