The idea of storyboarding used to be something I hated. I don’t like drawing, I don’t like drawing out pictures of scenes in my head – which is always what I was taught storyboarding was. But tonight I just spent two and a half hours storyboarding Don’t Look Back, which meant a lot of talking out loud, listening to the song through in sequence, making grand gestures in my living room while I paced it, picturing angles and cuts and noting them all down as lines of text in my phone with directions and abbreviations, picturing them in my head, until I had the entire video in sequence from start to finish. The experience was a lot more me. (I’m a very logical person.)
Let me tell you, in my head it looks great xD If London really is empty tomorrow morning, it’ll look beautiful. And it’s my chance to really direct something impressive beyond straight cuts in a vlog. (Holding On doesn’t count really, as Charlie edited that.)
I’m excited. But now it’s officially Christmas Day, and I need to go to sleep.
Thanks for all your comments so far on the last blog entry, btw <3 You guys rule. I’ll digest them properly in a couple days.
(EDIT: I hit eighty thousand subscribers on YouTube just before midnight, so thanks for that too :D It’s like a Christmas present from you to me … does this mean I have to get you something in return? :/)
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