REFLECTIONS: Group Meeting #3, #4 and Storyboards

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At the same time, Katherine and I were working on illustrating everyone's ideas on to paper:

Rob's rough sketches and Katherine's final storyboard.

After completing the story and the storyboards, what was left was the shot list and risk assessments.

Now, after watching a video from a podcast i'm subscribed to, i found it really interesting how they used a system called FLIX to automate the storyboard process, and make it more dynamic and collaborative:
so i was wondering if there was a free and more accessible solution that we could use.

After searching the web, i managed to find something similar called ShotBox. It is an online storyboard collaboration tool, and it has helped us save a lot of time.

The main Shotbox interface, as i was digitizing the storyboard

The way it works is you upload each individual panel, give it a title, a description and some notes and then the tool automatically generates shot lists, breakdowns and a storyboard.

On each shot i've added shoot notes and instructions on how to properly film elements for VFX shots.

It's also extremely easy to use it for the purposes of shot reviews and updating the whole crew, since it has a comment system and anyone invited to collaborate can change the panels and add their own notes.

Finally, after all of the panels had been uploaded and tagged, i exported and printed a storyboard and a shot list/breakdown.

The final shot breakdown and the original storyboard.

Also, since Shotbox had automatically assigned numbers to each shot, it made it easier for Kat to plan a shoot schedule.

Overall, even though this was a tiring process, it will definitely help get the shoot done as efficiently as possible.

You can view all of our production files here.