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from the 35-mm cameras shooting the live performance movie gradually replaced the storyboarded stills to give
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sequence was unique at the time in that it included both long dramatic passages between virtual actors in addition to action shots in a complete presentation of all aspects of a key scene from the movie. It also signaled the beginning of previsualization as a new category of production apart from
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He developed the “electronic cinema” process, making the animatic the basis for the entire film. Coppola gave himself on-set composing tools to extend his thought processes. The actors read the script dramatically in a “radio-style” recording. Storyboard artists then drew more than 1800 individual
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shot in the film. Finished dailies would replace sections of the animatic as shooting progressed. At various points, the previsualization would include diverse elements including scanned-in storyboards, CG graphics, motion capture data and live action. Dozoretz and previsualization effects
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first used the term “storyboard” sometime after 1928, when its typical practice was to present basic action and gags on drawn panels, usually three to six sketches per vertical page. By the 1930s, storyboarding live-action films was common and a regular studio art department task.
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in a movie sequence. The rough graphics might be edited together along with temporary music and even dialogue. Some pre-viz can look like simple grey shapes representing the characters or elements in a scene, while other pre-vis can be sophisticated enough to look like a modern
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regularly as a television commercial sales tool and to guide the ad’s actual production. An animatic is a video of a hand-drawn storyboard with very limited added motion accompanied by a soundtrack. Like the Leica reel, animatics were primarily used for live action commercials.
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supervisor to experiment with different staging and art direction options, such as lighting, camera placement and movement, stage direction and editing, without incurring actual production costs. On larger budget projects, directors may previsualize with actors in the
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process, which filmed and edited storyboards to the film soundtrack. It is the predecessor of modern computer previsualization. Other 1930s prototyping techniques involved miniature sets that were often viewed with a “periscope,” a small optical device with deep
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the ability to compose electronic 2D storyboards on their own personal computer and also create 3D animated sequences that can predict with remarkable accuracy what will appear on the screen.
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with then state-of-the-art monitors and video editing equipment. Video feeds from the five stages at the
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180:photography
153:Description
1215:Categories
1115:2016-01-10
958:2016-01-10
820:The Camera
782:References
766:Storyboard
761:Screenplay
740:Moviestorm
708:video game
530:The Colony
511:Enterprise
488:multimedia
451:Daz Studio
372:John Knoll
230:Leica reel
172:chroma key
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1075:"G Force"
756:Animation
679:animatics
617:Star Wars
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509:Starship
385:Star Wars
370:creator)
368:Photoshop
278:Star Wars
262:Star Wars
254:animatics
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387:prequels
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190:Origins
143:filming
135:preview
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399:Matrix
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703:shots
677:, or
447:Poser
431:X-Men
346:Amiga
330:made
313:video
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73:books
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1006:ISBN
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545:and
501:for
478:and
416:and
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697:or
631:F/X
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455:Vue
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