Fair play. I've never storyboarded shorts I have shot before, but when time and memory (on HD cards) is an issue - I can see the point! have you thought about doing a graphic novel?
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Quote: Marc P @ November 26 2010, 9:27 AM GMTFair play. I've never storyboarded shorts I have shot before, but when time and memory (on HD cards) is an issue - I can see the point! have you thought about doing a graphic novel?
I also used to work in advertising and there you have the added hurdle of selling your idea to a - usually reluctant - client.
Storyboards are a really useful tool to sell to the creativelty impaired.
To be honest the director then imediately goes 'off the board' when it comes to the shoot - usually resulting in much waggling of polyboard by the disgruntled client at the inevitable post shoot debacle/autopsy.
Jonathon Glazier used to be a devil for this - Tony Kaye was legendary.
Good storyboard artists were always in high demand.
Don do you have any story boards on the net anywhere?
I love looking at the kind of stuff.
Quote: Mr Fancypants @ November 25 2010, 12:45 AM GMTA friend of mine told me that he knows a producer who takes the top half of his unsolicited scripts pile and puts them in the bin unread. His rationale is that the writers are obviously unlucky people and he does not wish to be associated with them.
Hmm...does your friend also find that Battenburg cake, cut into 16 slices then arranged in a square, makes an ideal emergency chessboard?
Quote: Marc P @ November 26 2010, 9:27 AM GMThave you thought about doing a graphic novel?
Not really my kind of thing, Marc. 
Quote: Ian Fox @ November 26 2010, 12:49 PM GMTDon do you have any story boards on the net anywhere?
I love looking at the kind of stuff.
I've sent you a link.
Thanks for that. Brilliant stuff.
Just out of curiosity can anyone tell which shows in the past ten years have been commissioned from unsolicited spec scripts?
I would have thought the nearest thing would be 'This Is Jinsy'. Even then, that wasn't quite as simple as just sending in a script on spec, as it involved a bunch of 'unknowns' forming their own production company and pitching their idea to the BBC.
Quote: Ian Fox @ November 26 2010, 11:54 PM GMTThanks for that. Brilliant stuff.
Just out of curiosity can anyone tell which shows in the past ten years have been commissioned from unsolicited spec scripts?
Anything by David Renwick.
Quote: don rushmore @ November 26 2010, 1:35 AM GMTBegan my career in TV advertising 12 years ago. And have worked in the industry ever since: storyboarding for commercials and stings.
Didn't you mention an ad you were involved in the other day?
I can't remember what it was now but it was one I liked.
Something about waffles? Waffley versatile?
Oh yeah!
I was hoping he'd written the song, but I suppose that's unlikely... 
I don't get it-'waffly versatile'. Is it meant to be a pun?
Awfully versatile.
Quote: Ian Fox @ November 26 2010, 11:54 PM GMTJust out of curiosity can anyone tell which shows in the past ten years have been commissioned from unsolicited spec scripts?
I'm sure it happens; or, as is more likely, the first unsolicited script leads on to solicited stuff.
Quote: zooo @ November 27 2010, 12:07 PM GMTOh yeah!
I was hoping he'd written the song, but I suppose that's unlikely...
Ah, I wish. But I'm not the 'write the feem choon, sing the feem choon' guy.
IIRC, that jingle is American - and first came out when I was at school.