subtle visual cues on the storyboard ?

EDV

EDV

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I've been reading about storyboarding, and a lot of the advice focuses on composition, angles, continuity, camera movement and character movement.
Camera movement is indicated by a white arrow apparently , while character movement by a black arrow.
Now, this may seem like a silly question but.... how do you indicate " out of focus " or " character coming into focus " in the storyboard? what about things like color isolation of one element in the frame, or slight use of animation in a film? I guess I'm thinking also of TV commercials, where heavy use of animation sometimes intercuts with video footage.
 
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Here's one way.
 
HHmm.. interesting. So storyboard art must be run through Photoshop sometimes...
 
One cat I know uses a wide light gray marker to draw his out-of-focus elements, and a fine tip black for the in-focus elements. It ends up looking a lot like what David posted above.

I always thought that was pretty clever of him.

I suppose the same could be done with a sharp #2 pencil vs. a wide dull #3 or #4 pencil.

And of course charcoal would work too. I personally always find it a bit messy, my drawing skills are not all that good.
 
I sketch boards with a #2, scan into PS, and paint them with a stylus pen. There's a zillion ways to do it, I figure if I'm gonna go there I should at least enjoy it.

They look great on an iPad, though i can't draw to save my life.

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