...is much like the writing process. You start with a first draft, which comes out like a blob, then you get feedback, collaborate, and then re-visit it. With that you re-storyboard, re-storyboard, re-storyboard!
It's an interesting process and I find it baffling that other filmmakers DO NOT storyboard. Cinema is a VISUAL (and audio) experience. How could you NOT storyboard your vision. Words are a good first way to get things down and then pictures, right?
I've struggled, kicking and screaming sometimes with sitting down to get my ideas in pictures. I can "see" them, but when it comes to pushing the pencil on the paper, I stumble. The main reason is that drawing is NOT my favorite thing to do. I'm not that good at it and I don't have the patience to get perspective and details just so.
...but.... I'm learning to embrace this part of the process and am realizing the invaluable tool it will serve later when I come to direct this story. (I am also playing the protagonist role of Jeff in this film... more to come on that later)
With my drawings, I am working with my creative writing group for feedback and then I submit those changes to the professional storyboard/illustrator for a final draft (well... nothing is final, until you shoot)........ So go ahead..... DRAW something!
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