From Word to Image: Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process

by Marcie Begleiter

Book Overview

Updated edition of best selling book on storyboarding

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193290767X
• ISBN13: 9781932907674
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Must Have!

Marcie's book is an excellent, concise, and very well organized compendium for how to approach visual storytelling. Furthermore, this volume is supported with still images, drawings, and illustrations from classics in film history. I would highly recommend it as a textbook for both beginning artists as well as established professionals. Also, please pay special attention to the chapter dealing with composition, as it will allow you to enjoy, and hopefully design, films in whole new way. A must have!

clearly written useful & well structured information

I am a professionally trained graphic designer who works in film and I already did a lot of storyboarding for film and commercials before I came across this helpful book. There 's a lot of useful stuff for every professional level, especially in this kind of trade where most have to teach themselves. Basic explanations on drawing people and camera angles, more advanced tips & tricks to finetune your workflow, great chapters on camera setup & move vocabulary and inspiring illustrations and storyboard art. The adding of personal recollection of the writer's storyboarding career makes it a fun and interesting read. If you want to improve your storyboarding skills (and communication-with-directors-skills), buying this book will definitely pay off.

best book on storyboarding

From word to imageMarcie BegleiterStoryboarding and the filmmaking processThis is the best book to have on storyboarding. As Chair of the Digital Media dept. at Otis College of Art and Design, I read and review tons of books to see if they would be of use for our undergrads and graduates. Though there are several books that cover storyboarding, none are as effective nor as useful. This goes beyond a mere lesson in the formatting of a storyboard. There is a deep understanding of the subject because Marcie is a long-time professional feature film storyboard artist. The book does cover the feel and look of a storyboard, yet it goes beyond that by providing examples from the grand history of film. Just one of the nice features of the book is the excellent list of DVDs that contain storyboard examples and visualization documents. Marcie tells you what a storyboard is for, how to make one, how to make them effective and then even how to get a gig as a storyboard artist. It is all here for you.

Best I've read!

I have been through the pre-production process more than a few times and have always struggled to accurately transfer my ideas to paper. I was looking to increase my skills in this area and a friend suggested I pick up this book... WOW!, was I blown away. This book walks you through the entire process of getting the ideas swimming around in your head onto the paper with such clarity and ease that I was actually shocked. If I had to recommend a learning tool to a filmmaker, be they director or a member of the art department, I would not hesitate to recommend Ms. Begleiter's book.

Interested in learning storyboarding? START HERE!

I am teaching an advanced motion graphics course at a California University, and for my students I needed a good book on storyboarding. I looked at about half a dozen of them (in-print and out-of-print). This book is by far the best. It is systematic, it is clearly and concisely written, and it uses reproductions of real storyboards of real films. It is adequate for the beginner and useful for moderately experienced graphic artists and illustrators looking to repurpose their skills for the field of storyboarding.