Storyboards are essential to success!
“Storyboarding provides the quickest and least expensive way of visualizing a proposed film. The technique works equally well for low budget and blockbuster productions.” - David Russell
Direct Before You Shoot – The Art of Storyboarding
September 5th and 6th
9:00AM to 3:00PM PST
Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave, Seattle, 98122)
Storyboarding is a critical phase of a film’s pre-production. The director and storyboard artist collaborate to produce a series of almost comic book-like panels, which serve to visualize for the director how his or her film will be shot. Storyboarding is equally valuable to large, moderate, and low-budget productions. It aids the director during the entire film-making process, from pre-production to editing, to communicate efficiently with the cast and crew, ensuring that everyone in the production understands exactly what he or she is trying to achieve.
In this informative and practical class presents an expert analysis of the visual planning process. It provides an insider look at how a script can be enhanced through creative storyboarding, and how this critical tool is used by prominent directors to realize exactly the film they envision. We will analyze sequences which David has boarded for prominent films and show how they were eventually shot and edited. He will also discuss visual planning methods of cinematic masters.
The Master Class is designed to provide immediately applicable tools, and extensive technical information on creating effective storyboards.
David Russell has designed concepts and storyboards for over 80 feature films. His work is valued by industry's top directors and production designers for its dynamic and powerful narrative quality. Russell works in both digital and traditional mediums.
Russell's artwork has been featured in books, magazines and other publications, and is represented in the Smithsonian Institute, Getty Museum, Film Museum of Norway, and in numerous private collections. His acclaimed Master Class on the art of storyboarding has been presented in the US, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Serbia, The Netherlands and Singapore
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David is extraordinarily gifted
“The storyboarding process is a collaboration between the director and the storyboard artist, where you can pre-articulate exactly the coverage you are wanting to achieve.” - Baz Luhrmann (Director)