Hi, Sherm! I think I am just about read to start thumnailing. I have my sequencs and my the beats all set up on post-its. I love it! I am now gathering my references, but I have made some visual notes on the script.
One question: Is a take the same as a close-up?
Thanks, Brew
Excellent — everybody should definitely be thumbnailing by today. Aren’t Post-It’s great? They really free me up.
A “take” is when a character reacts in surprise (usually without dialog)…it’s that “Doink!” moment…it can be subtle or as extreme as Tex Avery would do, an eye-popping “Aaoooogah!” moment. I recommend something less extreme than that for this story. It can be in a close-up or in any other framing. Does that make sense?
Great lecture 🙂
I’ve often thought that my thumbnails were too rough, but I see we use them in the same way ^^
I can’t wait to watch how you move form the thumbnails to the rough… so I’ll click on 7-01 right now 😉
I watched this very intently and realized how much I freaked out over the thumbnail stage back then. I’m gradually getting more and more comfortable with drawing in shorthand and learning how to simplify and stage things, rather than worrying over detail.
Thanks for the heads up on that, Colt; sadly, the original audio tracks no longer exist separately, but anytime I add new or revised videos, they’ll be posted right here. Fortunately, those couple minutes were the only time it happened, so everything else is running smoothly. You’re burning through the lessons; I’m really glad you’re enjoying them so much…and they’ll always be here for repeated viewings to let it all sink in 🙂 I shipped out your DVD package yesterday, so you can expect that soon. Enjoy the rest of the lessons — Sherm
Hi Sherm, first of all I just want to say great lecture and I really like how you went ahead and showed us your thought process on how you go about thumbnailing. In the video you noted that the jeeps were coming in the wrong direction and you had to fix that. Looks like they were coming in screen right the whole time, was that not correct?
Hi Raymond — I’m glad to know you’re enjoying the course 🙂
Regarding the jeeps: At 23:04 he is looking toward screen-left, and consequently they run toward screen-right. So in 37:40 I should have had the Officer looking back at screen-left (That’s the direction they were running from). Those mistakes are best discovered while thumbnailing so that you don’t waste time cleaning up a drawing that doesn’t work. Fortunately we covered screen direction in a separate video: http://storyboardsecrets.com/members/lessons/2-03-screen-direction/ Thanks!
Hi Sherm, Thanks for this section, especially showing the thinking process. This is really informative detail stuff. It’s like personal training. …Really useful and helpful. Thanks.
Right around the 14 minute mark, there’s a lot of double audio. It’s not that confusing, but just making a note since I can, and its easy to do so!
Thanks Scott — I can definitely see you’re watching closely! My apologies; I’m just glad the audio glitch is so brief 😛
Hi, Sherm! I think I am just about read to start thumnailing. I have my sequencs and my the beats all set up on post-its. I love it! I am now gathering my references, but I have made some visual notes on the script.
One question: Is a take the same as a close-up?
Thanks, Brew
Excellent — everybody should definitely be thumbnailing by today. Aren’t Post-It’s great? They really free me up.
A “take” is when a character reacts in surprise (usually without dialog)…it’s that “Doink!” moment…it can be subtle or as extreme as Tex Avery would do, an eye-popping “Aaoooogah!” moment. I recommend something less extreme than that for this story. It can be in a close-up or in any other framing. Does that make sense?
Great lecture 🙂
I’ve often thought that my thumbnails were too rough, but I see we use them in the same way ^^
I can’t wait to watch how you move form the thumbnails to the rough… so I’ll click on 7-01 right now 😉
Very inspiring lesson !
I watched this very intently and realized how much I freaked out over the thumbnail stage back then. I’m gradually getting more and more comfortable with drawing in shorthand and learning how to simplify and stage things, rather than worrying over detail.
Thanks again, Sherm!
Hey Sherm! Love the lessons, just wanted to let you know that there is still some audio overlapping between the 13:00-15:00 mark
Thanks for the heads up on that, Colt; sadly, the original audio tracks no longer exist separately, but anytime I add new or revised videos, they’ll be posted right here. Fortunately, those couple minutes were the only time it happened, so everything else is running smoothly. You’re burning through the lessons; I’m really glad you’re enjoying them so much…and they’ll always be here for repeated viewings to let it all sink in 🙂 I shipped out your DVD package yesterday, so you can expect that soon. Enjoy the rest of the lessons — Sherm
Hi Sherm, first of all I just want to say great lecture and I really like how you went ahead and showed us your thought process on how you go about thumbnailing. In the video you noted that the jeeps were coming in the wrong direction and you had to fix that. Looks like they were coming in screen right the whole time, was that not correct?
Thank you!
Hi Raymond — I’m glad to know you’re enjoying the course 🙂
Regarding the jeeps: At 23:04 he is looking toward screen-left, and consequently they run toward screen-right. So in 37:40 I should have had the Officer looking back at screen-left (That’s the direction they were running from). Those mistakes are best discovered while thumbnailing so that you don’t waste time cleaning up a drawing that doesn’t work. Fortunately we covered screen direction in a separate video: http://storyboardsecrets.com/members/lessons/2-03-screen-direction/ Thanks!
Ohhhhh I see now, I completely forgot about the part where he looks through his binoculars haha. Thank you for clarifying that! 🙂
Hi Sherm, Thanks for this section, especially showing the thinking process. This is really informative detail stuff. It’s like personal training. …Really useful and helpful. Thanks.