Caretaker of the VisionThe Director and Pre-Vis : Tools, Techniques and Technology

Feel and Tone

Getty Moodstream

Digital Scrap-booking

Live media scanning

Digital brainstorming

http://moodstream.gettyimages.com

- Selecting images

- Creating ‘moodboards’

- Downloading and saving images

Collating and Collecting

Adobe Bridge

Celtx

Comparing and Assessing

Presentation and Communication

Creating Associations and Bisociations

- ‘Storyboard’ assembly

- Creating Collections

- Generating contact sheets

http://www.celtx.com

Analysis and Interrogation

Thumber

Creating a Macro-View on a scene

Breaking down a sequence to isolated elements

Distilling films to building blocks to dicern intention and effect

- Importing videos

- Setting dimensions and intervals

- Generating Mosaics

http://www.threewordtitle.com/thumber/

Colour and Palette

Adobe Kuler

- Viewing colour structures

- Generating colour palettes

- Applying RGB values

Colour analysis

Devising thematic palettes

Using consistent colour references

http://kuler.adobe.com

3D-PreVis

SketchUp

Spatial visualization

Movement blocking

Camera experimentation

- Arranging virtual sets

- Inserting virtual cameras

- Exporting stills and video sequenceshttp://sketchup.google.com/

Readings and Resources

UnrealCity : How ILM used the Unreal game engine to pre-visualize Stephen Speilberg’s AI.

http://ifsstech.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lehane_unrealcity_01.pdf

Digital Pre-Vis options for the Digital Indie Filmmaker Pre-Vis is not just an indulgent process for mega-budget features.

http://forums.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=519527-0

Previsualization Wikipedia entry covers an excellent range of elements to do with PreVis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Previsualization

Idea Editing: Previsualization for Feature Films

http://www.stagetools.com/previs.htm

Superman Returns Previsualization

http://www.xsibase.com/articles.php?detail=113

The Rapidly Growing World of Indie Previs

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=columns&article_no=2765&page=1

Previsualization: Whiz-bang viz!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001263805