Technicality involved in video production

Time to make decisions about exactly what information is going into video, audio, still photos, graphics and text. For this you need to refine your rough storyboards, figuring out what’s changed from your original vision of the story, and mapping out what you media have and what should appear on each page. Here are some general guidelines about using the different media.  Keep videos short three or four minutes, tops, and preferably around one or two minutes. Keep talking heads to a minimum. Before you create your film storyboards, you have to perform certain tasks and make certain decisions. First, begin by evaluating your screenplay and picturing it in terms of separate shots that can be visually translated into individual storyboard panels. Then you determine what makes up each shot and also which images need to be storyboarded and which ones don’t. After you start storyboarding, you’ll need to determine whether you’re shooting for a TV movie or a theatrical release, which will ultimately affect the frame dimensions of your panels. The task of turning your screenplay into a film can be very overwhelming. But remember, a long journey begins with a single step, so begin by breaking the screenplay down into small steps, or shots. Shots defined from the time the camera turns on to cover the action to the time it’s turned off; in other words, continuous footage with no cuts. These small points can only be well touched and taken into consideration by an expert animation studio or video production house which makes a video with the help of an animatics and storyboards.