The Art of the Storyboard: A Filmmaker's Introduction, Second Edition

Contains a lot of good information for the beginning animator!

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Found the book informative. Still seems to be something missing or a general idea is about all you get for it. Still makes me think a little.

I won't say this book is completely useless, because there is some useful information inside it. However, I believe Mr. Hart could have produced a much better book, if he honestly intended to share his knowledge with the readers. I'll just mention ONE thing that cheapened the book enormously: the fact that he made what he considers "illustrations" instead of using the actual pictures he hand-copied. How can he expect to teach something about light and shadow, by presenting his "drawings", instead of the photographies, and photo stills of the movies he cites? The only photographs we see in this book are the ones HE took. What was his problem? Not wanting to pay royalties for the use of the pictures, or an immense ego, which makes the reader have to suffer his bad drawings? I've read a few books on storyboarding, and this one is the poorest one on the subject. Sorry, Mr. Hart, but the way I see it, you ripped your readers off.

John Hart uses great illustrations and examples from movies you will be familiar with to illustrate his points. His approach is to give us more of a history of film and film composition, which is important. He also describes the role of a storyboard artist very well and the questions we should ask our director and DP to bring their visual images to life. I thought it was a nice overview of the history and process. My favorite element to the book were the storyboard drawing examples he used.Now here is the part many people will hit the not helpful button on. This is what I didn't like. Well I wouldn't say I didn't like it, I was just expecting to come away with a knowledge of actually drawing and putting together storyboards. I know how to draw and I'm a photographer, so drawing and composition is not what I needed. I wanted to learn how to structure a storyboard, and how to breakdown a script so that I can start putting a shot list together and then a storyboard. I found a lot of the book very repetitive so I skipped a lot. I thought the book got to the point around chapter 6 when he started talking about some of the techniques storyboard artist use, but it still fell flat at the end for me. I also read Explore Storyboarding by Wendy Tumminello and thought it found it to be more helpful in understanding things like the proper way to measure frames to fit the aspect ratio for the film, lighting, angles, and how to breakdown the script. I didn't get any of that from this book.In closing, I would recommend this book for beginners who would like a history of film and an overview of drawing. For me, there are a lot of books on drawing that are more detailed and cinematography/directing books about shots and composition.

I first became interested in Professor Hart's work when I acquired his book "50 Techniques of Portrait Lighting".  50 Portrait Lighting Techniques for Pictures that Sell As an architectural lighting designer and teacher of Light, I continue to add to my collection of resources to help explain ideas and techniques with clarity and simplicity. John Hart is a master of exemplifying ideas. The wonderful hand-rendered illustrations in this new edition of "Art of the Storyboard" lend an air of humanity and accessibility - too often missing in the computer generated examples most common today.While written for a specific audience - I think storyboarding can be a useful technique for all sorts of planning and programming tasks. This book will help me incorporate this process in my work and in the classes I teach. I will whole-heartedly recommend this book and it's author to students and colleagues.

This book has most of the topics covered for good story boarding with good examples and details. However, it is best used as a starting point and can help to know to go where next. A better book like is the  The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media  This is a absolute masterpiece. However, both used to together will make the maximum benefit - both all types of media.

John Harts book The Art of The Storyboard is probably the best one out there that I have read on the topic. Its 221 pages take the readers through a journey that upon conclusion gives them everything they need to create storyboards for their work.As a film maker and Chairman of a Film Commission I was very impressed with the depth of knowledge of the author and how well he projects complicated procedures using verbiage and excellent illustrations in his book.Not only does he cover the basics in terms of film but he also delves into storyboarding for Television and Animation. This book is a comprehensive work on the Visual Language of Cinema in every respect.It is definitely a must read for those interested in the topic.Bill Cress The Art of the Storyboard, Second Edition: A filmmaker's introduction

I really wanted to like this book. It was really expensive for the Kindle version, first of all...Then I started scanning through it and noticed that the famous movie storyboards samples are all a re -interpretation drawn by the author. Not only is the art substandard but, in the kindle version, all the frames are squashed to a square. So nobody has bothered to format it correctly. There goes all the value of the composition examples. I tried returning it and couldn’t. I do not recommend this book.

Die Aussage des Klappentextes "You don't need to be a Rembrandt to tell a story with pictures" wurde hier sehr ausgereizt. Für Liebhaber eines präzisen, aussagestarken Storyboardstrichs ist dieses Buch eine Enttäuschung. Wenn professionelles Storyboarden bedeutet, dass die dramaturgische Aussage der verschiedenen Kameralinsen und Winkel (Weitwinkel, Teleobjektiv, Untersicht oder Aufsicht etc.) in den Storyboardzeichnungen gekonnt zum Ausruck kommen und der Zeichnung ihren filmischen Charakter geben, dann begnügt sich der Autor mit Skizzen auf Laienniveau.

Excelente manual. Yo lo pondría en un nivel intermedio. Para iniciados buscaría otros títulos, aún así lo recomiendo

Awesome content ! very useful info to know.

Ótimo livro para quem quer aprender sobre a arte de fazer um storyboard!! A obra é bem didádico e bem ilustrado!! Recomendo!!