Storyboarding

Now that we know well all the sizes of shot, we can realize that a description of a shot may not be enough to describe a scene from the written screenplay. When people make a movie, they usually draw all the shots in a simple but descriptive way. You can see this very well in this videos:

Once you've seen the videos, you need to practise yourself. The following text is a fragment of the original screenplay of "Hanna", let's imagine that you are the director of the movie and translate that text into drawings, meaning, draw it's storyboard.

Intro hanna: screenplay

EXT. FOREST FLOOR - DAY. 1

Sparse forest. Snow falls.

Breathing and the BEAT of a person running.

HANNA, fourteen years old, long hair, eyes like blue ice,

dressed in animal skins, glides through the trees, a bow

strapped to her shoulder.

She slows, crooks her head, listening, her breath visible in

the freezing air.

A FEW HUNDRED YARDS away

A REINDEER nuzzles the snow, searches for grass.

Its head pops up. It looks at the trees but doesn’t see her.

The bow string STRETCHES. Her blue eyes focus. She exhales

deeply and releases.

The arrow glides and SNAPS into the deer’s side. It flops,

its feet running without ground, frantic.

It resurrects itself, blood slipping from its side, and

sprints. She sprints after it, the trees strobing past her.

She follows the trail of blood in the snow.

The deer stands in a clearing, waiting for her.

Steam pours from its mouth and nostrils.

HANNA approaches, removes a fur glove.

She reaches out and gently pets the animal’s frightened face.

She runs her hand down along its neck, in towards the wound.

HANNA

I just missed your heart.

She pulls out an old pistol from her waist holster, pauses,

and then-- POP. POP. into CAMERA.

CUT TO TITLE: HANNA

When you've finished, you can watch the real video. Is it how you've imagined? Do you think you got the spirit of the movie in your drawings?