To decide on our roles for our group we got together and discussed who would suit each role best. As our groups have changed from the previous year we all thought it would be best to stick with our original roles from last year’s project as we have experience and knowledge on particular roles. This meant that I would be the storyboard designer, James would be the script writer, Sam would be the director and due to Ryan’s departure from media studies we all have taking the role of editors. I believe taking on these roles will help our production be most successful.
After finding out my role I decided to research into storyboarding. When designing a storyboard the graphics can be hand drawn, the idea is to give enough information in the storyboard to help develop the final product. There is loads of professional equipment you can use for creating storyboards but one of the best pieces of equipment is the storyboard pro. This piece of equipment benefits are it reduce cost, it helps visualize your ideas, animate you storyboard and it takes shorter time to produce. Many big companies use storyboard pro such as:
• Cartoon network
• Disney
• Fox
• Sony
• Warner home video
This has helped me understand the role of being a storyboard designer. Although storyboard pro would be a great help in creating a storyboard for my A2 media project I will not use this as I believe I have enough skills to draw a storyboard with enough information for it to be produced into a short film. As our group has decided what we will be doing for our production I can begin to think about doing some drafts of what the short films key scenes will be as trying to do too much too early may affect the outcome because changes will happen due to things like location and characters as they may force our group to reconsider our ideas making sure everything works out ok for the final production of the film.
