The Art of the Storyboard: A Filmmaker's Introduction

by John Hart

Communicate your vision, tell your story and plan major scenes with simple, effective storyboarding techniques. Using sketches of shots from classic films, from silents to the present day, John Hart leads you through the history and evolution of this craft to help you get to grips with translating your vision onto paper, from the rough sketch to the finished storyboard. More than 150 illustrations from the author's and other storyboard artists' work illuminate the text throughout to help you master the essential components of storyboarding, such as framing, placement of figures, and camera Novice

Genres: Film, Art, Animation, Nonfiction, Reference, Ebooks, Writing

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Through my photography, I'm interested in capturing honest, telling and engaging pictures of our world. I’m endlessly fascinated by how people from diverse walks of life interpret their own place in the universe and how they interact with those around them. The ways they might exploit their gifts, or not. How external forces might shape their outlook and thoughts - and what gives their lives meaning. I’m especially interested in exploring areas of common ground, where, despite the disparate histories people may have, discovering intersections where hopes and concerns are shared. I do consider photography to be an art form as well, and I’m drawn to the potential of rendering life’s interactions in visually engaging ways that resonate on both visceral and aesthetic levels.

As a staff photographer with the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin USA, my editorial work has appeared in a wide variety of media outlets, and my art photography has been included in juried exhibits at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Art in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Reviews

[Nadja · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could have had 3 stars if it wasn't for the terrible way the text was framed into the page. In a book like this you are supposed to see the illustration while they are talking about them, not 2 or 3 pages later. That was extremely confusing.
On the other hand, the book itself is a good introduction, but that is all it is. It has a couple of good tips but if you already are experienced it is pretty much a repetition and a constant display of examples that are hard to be followed.

[Marielos Peña · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don’t buy the Kindle version. Good knowledge ruined by terrible art

I really wanted to like this book. It was really expensive for the Kindle version, first of all...Then I started scanning through it and noticed that the famous movie storyboards samples are all a re -interpretation drawn by the author. Not only is the art substandard but, in the kindle version, all the frames are squashed to a square. So nobody has bothered to format it correctly. There goes all the value of the composition examples. I think I may return it.

[ibrahim bader · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book that contains information and illustrative pictures that explain the concept of the storyboard. The book is very rich and suitable for beginners in the field.

[Dani Nefasto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Breve introducción al mundo del story board.

[Rene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before I got into animation school, I was trying to get into animation studios through the story department. I read as much as I could on storyboarding. This book was a big help in that endeavor. I later found out that is very difficult to get into story. So I think I'll stick with character animation.

[Jerod Duris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good use of single frames, light direction and action.

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

An ambitious amount of information, inelegantly expressed.