Board for editing, not for pretty
Fast, legible panels. The point was to see the cut, not to admire the drawings.
Roots – Storyboard Sequence
A boarded sequence that let the production find its problems on paper, where fixing them costs nothing.
Client
Roots
Year
2023
Our role
Storyboarding, sequence design
Deliverables
180 panels, animatic, shot list
The brief
A short film with a fixed shooting schedule and an ambitious middle act. The director wanted to know whether the sequence worked before committing a crew to it.
The approach
We boarded tight, cut an animatic with temp sound, and watched it enough times to stop liking it. Three shots were dropped and two were merged.
Cut an animatic early
Timing exposed a twelve-second sag in the middle that nobody had noticed in the script.
Deliver a shot list that matches
Every panel numbered against the schedule, so the AD could plan the day from the boards.
Selected frames
The result
The sequence shot in three days instead of four. Two setups were cut before anyone paid for them.
180Panels delivered
-1 dayOff the shooting schedule
12sOf dead time found on paper
Cheapest editing we have ever done was the week before the shoot.
Director, Roots
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