Article · Cartoon SNAP
When to CUT? Storyboard Commentary Video
By Sherm Cohen
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2010
About this lesson
Uses a deliberately silly comparison (adding cream to coffee versus poisoning it) to explain the judgment call behind a storyboard cut: cut in closer only when something in frame has just become more important, and let the new shot size announce that to the audience.
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