THEORY:
Take notes on the following terms (in presentation or in Theory.
Storyboard
Shots
Animatic: a preliminary sequence of shots, images, or sketches (as for a movie or an animated television program) that is filmed or arranged usually with a sound track and viewed to determine its effectiveness before being finalized
Panel: an art-board (think of visual language)
Scene: A series of art-boards made up of shots, angles, and notes
Sequence: a series of scenes which depicts part of a story
TASK:
Create a Storyboard and an animatic using Storyboard Pro using the first 2 sequences of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox
Step 1 – Use the provided storyboard sheet as a templet to draw boards, record action notes, dialogue and camera movement on paper
Step 2 – Create scenes, panels and storyboard using ToonBoom Storyboard Pro.
Step 3 – Assess your storyboard. Now that your scene is complete, it’s time to go back and review it for completeness. This is an important step in the storyboarding process, one that will refine your storyboard significantly.
Does each panel’s drawing clearly illustrate the action, movement and direction?
Reread your notes and correct, add or delete anything unnecessary. You want the notes to be clear and concise.
Do you need to add any camera moves? Or remove some?
Should you redraw some of the panels because they don’t fit the storyline of the scene or don’t illustrate the action?
Does each panel show the story instead of telling it?
Step 4 – Export as: firstlastname_SBActivity.mov and Export as a PDF: firstlastname_SBActivity.pdf
Step 5 – Upload notes, storyboard print out (PDF or JPG) and animatic (MOV) to Behance Portfolio (under an Activity title).
Resources:
Script
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Written by
Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach March 4, 2007
EXT. WOODS. DAY
An apple tree stands alone at the top of a hill. A handsome fox dressed in an Edwardian-style navy velvet suit leans against it with his arms folded and his legs crossed, chewing on a reed of wild grass. He holds an apple core in his paw. He spits out a seed. He looks off across a meadow that descends into the valley below. A female fox strides briskly up the hill. Her coat is a paler, especially beautiful shade of fox-red, and she wears men’s trousers and a dark tunic.
Fox says as she approaches:
FOX What’d the doctor say?
MRS. FOX Nothing. Supposedly, it’s just a twenty-four hour bug. He gave me some pills.
FOX (REASSURINGLY) I told you. You probably just ate some bad gristle. Fox brushes the fur on Mrs. Fox’s ears with his paws. They walk together along the crest of the hill to a fork in the path. Fox points:
FOX Should we take the short cut or the scenic route?
MRS. FOX Let’s take the short cut.
FOX But the scenic route is so much prettier.
MRS. FOX (SHRUGS) OK, let’s take the scenic route.
FOX Great. It’s actually slightly quicker, anyway. Fox throws his apple core away over his shoulder and dances a quick circle around Mrs. Fox, wrapping his arm around her waist extravagantly and making her laugh as they start off down the scenic route.
2. EXT. FARM. DAY
A rustic cottage surrounded by a small barn, a tin silo, and a rickity windmill. There is a sheep in a little pasture. A sign on a rail says Berkus Squab. Fox and Mrs. Fox watch from the bushes outside a fence.