What's up with story boards anyway - does anybody (1 Viewer)

[Rod Melotte]

What's up with story boards anyway - does anybody actually look at this Special Feature? I consider it a waste of money personally. I'd rather have more trailers.

 

[Rob Robinson]

yeah? and I wouldn't
That's the beauty of DVD... we all get the choice to look at what we want (in theory).
I would rather have pre-production sotryboards from a director, as opposed to marketing materials from marketing execs at univeral...

 

[Patrick McCart]

I like storyboards that are shown as a "video" cued to narration or the actual film soundtrack.

The storyboards on the Shrek DVD are well done (partially by the enthusiastic narration given!)

A few other good storyboard DVD's:

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Fantasia

Fantasia 2000

Snow White

The Wizard of Oz

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

 

[Artur Meinild]

I quite like storyboard, especially when combined with mutliple angles and/or narration...

 

[StevenA]

Trailers are fun and sometimes interesting, particularly for older films, but storyboards are far more valuable to me, if they are well-presented. They are often a crucial elememnet in the filmmaking process. The Akira storyboards and designs are phenomenal.

 

[Adam_WM]

I like the Unbreakable storyboards. They are multi-angle with the train station sequence.

 

[Alex Spindler]

I found the storyboarded alternative ending to Se7en to be very effective in showing the unshot ending.
Count me in. I haven't viewed many of the storyboards for the DVD's I own, but I have liked the ones I've seen. Sometimes it is nice to see a shot as it was conceptualized in comparison to what was shot. Very educational.

 

[Rod Melotte]

LOL - I stand corrected - I guess this post goes with the "I hate Moulin Rouge DVD also!
Commentary tracks are great,
The Making off tracks are great
The Costums tracks are great
Deleted scenes are super
I can't think of any Special Feature that is not liked except Story Boards. Perhaps because it reminds me of work where we do that all the time except with computer systems.

 

[Mark-W]

The Birds also contained
storyboards, which I have preused through
a few times.
Mark

 

[Steve Tannehill]

I can't think of any Special Feature that is not liked

Er, that you don't like. I've been a fan of storyboards ever since the concept was explained to me on Criterion Collection laserdiscs. The storyboard comparison to the final footage of North by Northwest was an education in how the Master used them to plan the camera placement and movement.

- Steve

 

[Josh_Hill]

The storyboards on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back DVD are really good!

 

[Chad Gregory]

The storyboards on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back DVD are really good!

Yeah, definitely not what I would call film school fodder.

I was not expecting that when I clicked through... :b

-Chad

 

[Greg_Y]

Storyboards are good for the people who watch DVDs and buy into the "film school on a disc" mythos and imagine themselves as the next Kevin Smith or Spike Lee.
I'm just kidding around.

 

[Mike Broadman]

I usually don't care for things like commentaries and storyboards, but they're fine for those who like them. More is better than less.

One exception for me, though, is the Spawn DVD collection for the animated series. They show the boards with the final product simultaneously.

 

[Randy B A]

the story boards on basic instinct are prety good, as well as sevens alternate ending.

 

[Chad Gregory]

the story boards on basic instinct are prety good

It looks like I'll never get to see those at this rate. I refuse to buy this until they dump that ice pick case and put it in a normal keep case.
-Chad

 

[Philip Hamm]

Hey Chad, Why can't you just buy the disc and a regular keep case then switch it out? I'm sure someobody ot the net has created a cool card for it.
I like some story boards. The key is presentation. If I have to manually click-click-click my remote to see them I get tired of that real quick. Back in the day on SE LaserDiscs you could set the CAV storyboards to 1/32 speed and watch a storyboard slide show. Very good way to go. I would like to see that kind of approach on DVD more often. When they show the storyboards and the film at the same time I love that.

 

[Michael Martin]

I generally don't look at the storyboards features. However, this is more due to time factors than anything else -- as a husband, dad and working guy, it usually takes me quite a while to work through the other special features. Commentary is usually the second-to-last feature I explore (storyboards being the last). Storyboards for me yield the least pleasure/information-for-time-invested ratio of all the special features. If they are exceptionally well-done, then I find them interesting artistically, but most storyboards seem so rough and sketchy that they don't grab my interest. And, as stated above, I simply don't have the time and focus to sit and go through the storyboards features.

 

[Enrique B Chamorro]

If storyboards could be shown like a slide show with

the music from the movie in the background, then I think

more people would find some interest in them.

I will review the storyboards and photo files and can

be suprised at finding some nice jems.

I loved the storyboards in;

Army of Darkness 2 disc edition. They played at the same

time as the movie and shown in a corner of the picture

for comparison.

The Red Shoes has the "The Red Shoes Sketches," an

animated film of Hein Heckroth's painted Storyboards,

with a comparison to "The Red Shoes" ballet as an

Alternate Angle.

Ghostbusters has a side by side of storyboards and fim.

Akira SE has a boat load of background artwork and is

critical to fans of animated film works.

 

[Chad Gregory]

Hey Chad, Why can't you just buy the disc and a regular keep case then switch it out? I'm sure someobody ot the net has created a cool card for it.

Philip,

Well, I figured it would be just as easy to wait for the limited run of the ice pick case to run out, but that hasn't happened. Not to mention that I only have a laser printer. (haven't needed a color one before) On the bright side, it is scheduled for a price drop at the end of March, so I'll probably pick it up either way at that time.

-Chad