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Storyboard Week - Day 2 - Establishing Shot

By Sherm Cohen

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2010
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About this lesson

Explains why the establishing shot, the opening panel of a sequence, has to do more work than any other shot to set location and situation, since an overseas animation crew boarding from the script alone won't have the context a director has in their head.