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Rant: Everyone says to use a storyboard first but I changed my mind after an editor tore mine apart
I was making a short film last spring and spent like 40 hours on a detailed storyboard. My editor looked at it and said "this is wasting your time, just shoot scenes and we'll figure it out in post." I was annoyed at first but I tried it on the next project. I saved a ton of time and the final cut actually had better flow because we could rearrange stuff freely. Has anyone else found that overplanning hurts more than helps?
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oscar_ellis20d agoTop Commenter
Read this thing online from some indie director who said storyboards are just “organized anxiety” and that really stuck with me. Tbh his whole point was that filmmaking is about capturing moments, not checking boxes. I tried it with a music video last fall, just shot 3 hours of random footage and let my editor piece it together like a puzzle. The final video had way more energy than anything I could have drawn out in advance. Ngl there’s something freeing about treating the edit like discovery instead of following a script.
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the_margaret14d ago
Read this thing online where some old school director said storyboards are just "organized anxiety." Between that and what oscar_ellis's friend said it's making me rethink my whole process. Maybe I've been overthinking it this whole time.
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