Displays of movie-making techniques
To show techniques and plans for making movies requires displays that show time, 3-space, words, and sound.
Many highly talented visual workers have done so. Here is the beginning of a collection on storyboards, how-to
manuals for moving-making techniques, and project management displays for movies. I hope that our Kindly
Contributors will provide many splendid examples.
Anne Lukeman of Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions created brilliant small-multiple movies illustrating the classic
small multiple “22 FRAMES THAT ALWAYS WORK!!” by Wally Woods.
First, Wally Woods on the design of panels for comic books:
And here is the wonderful movie version of movie techniques (based on the comic book panels) by Anne Lukeman:
Source: source: Anne Lukeman
As those of a certain age know, “Ben Day” in the comic panels above is the product
name for transparent overlays of varying tones created by small dots of equal size for
each tone. Roy Lichtenstein featured Ben Day dots in his paintings and sculptures.
But “Ben Day” makes no sense in the movie-making world, unless translated into
something like “a soft background area of uniform tone.”
In Beautiful Evidence, I
constructed a storyboard from pieces of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499)
and compared it with a storyboard for Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959):
Source: Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence (2006), page 92.
