Cinematography/storyboarding reccomendations (films, editor, scene, action)

[SpaceMonkyPunks]

Hi all,

I'm an artist working in animation biz, looking to branch out from what I do and possible delve into more storyboard work. I don't have much....any...formal story board/film training, and was wondering if you all could recommend any films that you think have excellent sequences/excellent cinematography in general. Live action or animated*, new or classic. Don't care about the country of origin or language.


(*Note, I've probably seen just about ANY animated movie you could recommend, but still please feel free to mention it! I'll probably give it a rewatch. )

I'm still..."new" to this I guess, but a few of my favorite films, cinematograhpy-speaking wise, are:

-Lawrence of Arabia
-Rear Window
-Millennium Actress
-Spirited Away
-Most Pixar movies? (hard to pick one, and their boarding style is VERY homogeneous between films IMO.)
-Fury Road
-Prince of Egypt

[harry chickpea]

Freddie Young (LoA) also did "Ryan's Daughter" and "Dr Zhivago"

Don Peterman had some great short sequences in "Flashdance" - especially one sequence of her biking through wet streets.

The sequence in "2001:ASO" from the bone jump through the admission onto space station five is an oft-cited classic, as is the shower scene in "Psycho"

With storyboard, the focus is often more on prep for the editor and time/budget constraints than the cinematography. The shower scene required little set design or expense, but used sequence and quick cuts to great effect. "Cinematography" is more collaboration between cinematographer, director and artistic designer to flesh out the storyboard. A good example of where it comes together well is "Alien." I walked into that one cold when it first came out, and it transported me into a (expensive) world of Giger. If you can check out issues of ASC (American Cinematographer) it might be helpful.

[SpaceMonkyPunks]

Thanks very much!!

I think boarding for animation, there is slightly less focus on budget...simply b/c at the end of the day, everything in the frame has to be drawn and/or modeled/textured/painted/rendered/etc, you can't really avoid designing the sets.

[take57]

Anything Hitchcock.

I had a book I recently gave my niece, who wants to get into film editing, that was chock full of Hitchcock storyboards. A quick web search shows there is a lot of material available. The gold standard.