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Week 6: Storyboards and production plans
Map a logline onto setup, development and resolution, translate it into a storyboard and shot list, and plan the risk, permission and backup a first shoot needs.
29 March 2027
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A logline only becomes a shoot once it is broken into a structure, a storyboard and a shot list that someone else could execute. This lecture maps setup, development and resolution as images, builds a shot list from a storyboard, and works through coverage, screen direction and continuity before turning to the planning a real shoot day needs: time budgeting, risk assessment, access and permission, and a backup plan.
Outline
We move from a logline and a rough list of moments to a three-part structure, then from storyboard panels to a full shot list with size, movement, location and duration columns. The session closes with the planning work a shoot depends on — risk, permission, consent and the media record, and a backup for anything the plan assumes — and with the production log you keep once a shoot changes on the day.
Bring a logline, a location and a rough list of moments, and be ready to trade shot lists with a partner for review before Week 7.
Teaching team
- Idris Fenn — tutor