Storyboarding in the Digital Age

Abstract

While the majority of live-action film-makers now rely on digital technology — at the point of capture, when editing, or as a means of promotion and distribution — the act of storyboarding for a live-action film may still resemble any one of the variety of approaches already discussed in this book. However, the increasing ubiquity of digitally animated effects in seemingly live-action sequences, whether for the sake of overt spectacle or not, has prompted film-makers to turn to the additional intermediary stage of digital pre-visualisation (‘previs’) in order to more closely control the creation of the image.1