Storyboarding is an integral part of the pre-production phase of filmmaking. Planning out your camera shots and action saves time and eliminates much of the last-minute, on-set decision making, which is crucial when you have a limited budget for time and resources.

Rt. click and select “save image” to download the storyboard template.

As a budding filmmaker, you draw inspiration from your life’s experiences and use these as muses for your art.

In this class, you will spend some time creating a mini-documentary, using motion graphics created in After Effects, that explores who you are, your influences, and your artistic vision.

Here are examples from a similar mini-documentary, with the exception of the artists being an aspiring musician and fashion photographer, rather than filmmakers:

Mini-documentary about your learning experience.

First Person Narrative about your journey.

Possible talking points:

–Introduce yourself
–What is it about you that draws you to this field?
–What are your influences (films, filmmakers, other)?
–Current Wishes, hopes, dreams, fears?
–What are you learning through research and practice (about self, field of study, people)?
–Where do you get your ideas?
–What does your future hold (college, career, art, etc.)

B. B-roll (visuals for your documentary):

• –Long Portrait
• –Cinemagraph
• –Kinetic Typography
• –2.5D Parallax images
• –Time Lapse of you working
• –Time Remapped Screen Captures of your editing process
• –Images/Video of your influences
• –Childhood Pictures/Video
• –Animated Line Contour Portrait & Signature
• –Slit Scan Time Displacement
• –Stencil Luma (Double Exposure Effect)
• –Kaleidascope
• –3d wiggle
• –Stencil Alpha Titles

B-Roll assignments

The following are examples and resources for creating the B-roll (visual elements) of your mini-documentary:

Long Portraits

Animated Contour and Signature

Stencil Luma

Animated GIF “3D Wiggle” 

Motion Control Time Lapse

Kaleidascope

Slit Scan/Time Displacement Video

How To Create Bizarre Slit Scan Video using After Effects from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.

2.5 D Film Poster Using this technique:

2.5D Tutorial

Cinemagraphs

After Effects, Kinetic Typography

Giant Video

Massive from Dan Chen on Vimeo.

Title Design

After Effects Polar Coordinates