NARRATOR: This wall displays storyboards.
MARK ANDREWS: Hey, I'm Mark Andrews, and I was the head of story on Pixar's The Incredibles. Basically what a head of story does is draw boards and sequences that are in the movie, and I manage a team of 11 to 12 guys. And my primary role is to keep the visual language of the shots and the composition consistent throughout.”
NARRATOR:
At the end of this wall, just past the monitor, are two storyboards that read from top to bottom. They show the young superhero Dash trying out his amazing speed for the very first time. The very last panel is a rough. The rough is drawn from an early script, or from a pitch – the director simply telling the story. It shows only the basics: how the characters will move and how we will see that action.
MARK ANDREWS: We draw it quickly to get an idea for the staging and the acting and the motion and shots.
NARRATOR: The storyboard next to the monitor adds motion and effects details, to make the action as close to the real movie as possible.
MARK ANDREWS: It's all black and white because what we primarily want to do is work very, very, very fast and use as little amount of computer juice as we can. We just want to get primarily the shots, the motion, the editing, because the whole production pipeline, the animators, the layout guys, lighting, everybody can't do their jobs unless story's done and the sequences has been approved for production.
NARRATOR: Once the director approves the storyboards, they are put together in finished reels, like the sequence you see here on the monitor.
MARK ANDREWS: And that's kind of the blueprint to build our building, which is the movie.
