The Sixth Sense Lesson Summary

Today as a class we all watched a documentary on the storyboard process of The Sixth Sense. The documentary in which we watched was about the director M. Night Shyamalan and his thought process in the planning stage and also how the planning stage is so important as it can impact on the overall outcome. M. Night Shyamalan said that the by using a storyboard it helps him to visualise what is going to happen during the filming process and also the end product. When shown the storyboard in which he creates they are in full detail. This includes the positioning of characters, the lightning of the scene, the types of shots used. By him planning the exact position of the characters it helps him the visualise the outcome. This also helps him to visualise how the audience will see and interpret this. This has reinforced to me how important the storyboard process actually is. Furthermore by creating a storyboard it will save time as this can be referred back too. The process of making the story board usually take 12-16 weeks. This helps in the post-production and editing stages.

From watching this documentary, it has helped me to understand how important the storyboarding and planning process is. From looking at Shyamalan storyboard it has shown me how detailed a storyboard actually needs to be. By doing this it will allow myself and my group to visualise how our overall opening of a title sequence will look like. This has made me realise that we need to go back and look at our storyboard and make sure that we can visualise how its going to look and also what is going to happen. If we can't then we need to go into much more detail in terms of the positioning of the characters and the transitions etc. By creating a detailed storyboard it will help when it comes to editing and also will make our post-production stage easier. If we did not do this, then during post production we might need to re-shot costing a lot of time Overall, from watching this documentary i t has mad me realise the importance of the storyboarding process.