Chapter ten

Camera

My DP was really big on using floor plans. I drew some rough storyboards of the character when he was moving through obstacles and the tall grass on his way to the wall, but most of the shots were determined by the locations, which we were securing at the last moment. I had story boarded a sequence for the location we had secured for the U.S./Canadian border but then we lost that location and I had to restage my whole visual plan. At that point, I stopped storyboarding.

James Darling

DIRECTOR

Collaborate

All the planning, storyboarding, and pre-visualization that occur during preproduction are translated into a finished product during production by the camera. The camera is the tool through which the director realizes the ...

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