Storyboards
So there I was, searching for good storyboarding software the other night…I wanted something low-cost or free that would help me create my storyboards. Up until now I had been drawing them by hand on a storyboard template, which worked fine for One-Day Seminar. After finding a couple of things that kinda worked, I gave up on the idea. Then I remembered that Celtx (the program I use to write the script, keep track of everything, etc) has storyboard support built into it. The problem is, it requires an image or a sketch from their program. Then another thought popped into my head…hey, I have a scanner…
So a couple hours later, after hooking my old parallel scanner up to an old laptop of mine (my main computer has no parallel port), I was able to scan in my hand-drawn storyboards for the first scene, cut them up (using Paint.NET) and create a storyboard in Celtx. This is really cool because I get the benefit of drawing them myself, but then once they’re in Celtx, I can rearrange, annotate and print them to my hearts content. I think this is a really cool way to go, and based on what I’ve done so far, I’m excited to see the rest of the storyboards come together.
One of the neat things Celtx lets you do is play the storyboards back sorta like a movie. So check out this video I made (using Jing) of this playback…and while you’re watching, keep in mind the title of this blog entry 🙂
Actors
So unfortunately the actor Leena asked could not commit, so the search for the second lead actor continues. If all goes well I will meet with Rob this week to go over the script and possibly rehearse some scenes.
Is it March already?
So this month I’d really like to solidify the shoot dates, find that other lead actor and get some rehearsals in. Let’s hope it goes well!
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