Stand-Out Shorts

Chapter | Seven

 

 

Previz

 

 

 

OVERVIEW

You know what you want but no one else quite sees it your way. Previsualizing helps get your vision of your movie across. Take a look at how storyboards or previz software can help make your movie real.

 

Some people do storyboards, some don’t. It’s your call. In practice, storyboards are great for a big movie when you have a lot of people depending on you, time is short and every second costs money. You need to know what shot you want, and be able to show someone a piece of paper with that shot drawn out.

But on short films it’s just as fine to turn up on the day you shoot and figure out what shot you want as you work. You can set up the action, play around with camera shots that look good, and then ...