Storyboard

What this is about

Storyboards translate a director's head into something a crew can question. The DoP sees intended framings, the VFX supervisor sees which shots need plates, the client sees what the money buys. Not every project boards everything: dialogue scenes often stay unboarded while action, stunts and effects are drawn precisely, because mistakes there are expensive. On set the board hangs next to the monitor and the crew ticks off frames like a checklist.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• Arrows for camera and subject movement carry as much information as the drawing itself.
• A storyboard fixes order and framing; the shot list adds lens, movement and technical notes.
• Rough thumbnails from the director often precede the clean board from a storyboard artist.

With TillyGen

TillyGen generates a storyboard from the briefing and keeps every frame tied to its shot in the list and its slot in the schedule.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.