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drawing the movie before anyone can afford to shoot it wrong.
means a sequence of sketches mapping shots, action, and camera moves before production begins.
from pioneered at disney in the early 1930s, where animators pinned story sketches to boards to plan shorts like three little pigs, saving expensive redraws.
disney originwebb smith invented pinning sketches to boards, 1933
hitchcock obsessionhe storyboarded so thoroughly he called shooting boring
animatics evolutionboards now get filmed with rough audio before production
for instance
psycho shower scene — hitchcock storyboarded all 70 cuts before filming, 1960
jaws — spielberg used boards to plan around a broken mechanical shark, 1975
pixar story reels — entire films re-boarded multiple times before animation starts