Chapter 10
The Enchanted Drawing: Pre-Visualization
In This Chapter
• Definitions of shot size or scale
• Dividing a scene into shots
• The differences and similarities between shot outlines, shooting scripts, and storyboards
• Using symbols and metaphors
Now that you have an understanding of how each scene moves through beats—revealing more information about the characters and developing the story’s conflict—you’re ready to start thinking about how that information will be put on the screen. This is the first step in creating the visual design of the film.
To help with this, you’ll need to break the script down even further: image by image. This process is often referred to as pre-visualization or pre-viz. This includes further breaking down ...
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