Moving Images, Understanding Media

270 Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding Media

F. W. Murnau created complex visualizations of their movies, and storyboards

evolved as a widely-used step in the pre-production process. As employed

by the Fleischer and Disney animation studios, storyboards constituted

what was a visual equivalent to an early draft of the script, which could later

be written in screenplay format, primarily for the integration of dialogue.

For some fi lmmakers, storyboards are very simple sketches used to create

a loose game plan, while for others they are employed as an integral tool in

story development and in planning discussions between the members of the

production team.

Figure 7-17 Screenplay over

a shot that occurs during

the scene. (Courtesy Carl

Casinghino)

Figure 7-18 Storyboard

sequence for A Frog and a

Princess (2006) by Kimberly

Miner, director of the Student

Academy-Award winning

animated short Perpetual

Motion (Courtesy Kimberly

A. Miner)

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