StoryPad:

A Storyboard Sketchpad for Film-makers

So you’ve decided to shoot a video. You’ve got a basic idea, a bucket-load of enthusiasm and ahandful of friends champing at the bit to help out. But if you’re like most novice film-makers, you’veput a lot more thought into what you’re going to do with your masterpiece after it’s made than youhave into exactly how you’re going to film it. What camera angles are you going to shoot for Scene5? Do you need to capture any background audio in your awesome train station scene? Which actorfriends do you have to assemble for the big reveal scene at the end?

These are the kinds of questions that are easy to answer, but just as easy to overlook and they cancause all kinds of headaches and delays when you do.

This StoryPad is designed as a quick way to plan out your project without getting you bogged downin a bunch of details. Use the parts you want, and disregard the stuff that doesn’t matter to you.

It’s also designed in a compact size so that you can carry it around with you, even when you’re notworking on a project. When an idea strikes you, or you suddengly find yourself cooling your jets withtime to kill, why not pull out your StoryPad and dash off a quick scene ideas or flesh out that ideayou’ve been toying with for months?

If I’ve done my job right, you’ll find your bad director-self better prepared, more effective and morecreatively energized. Just because you’ve got this book in your pocket.

Now, yell ”Action!” and let’s get down to business.

Jeff SmithAugust 9, 2009

Assembly Instructions

1. Print Pages

This document is set up to print 4 pages of StoryPad on a single sheet of U.S. letter paper, using duplexdouble-sided printing mode. When you print the entire document, you will end up with 25 sheets ofpaper containing this page plus 99 scene sketch pages.

Note: The black cover page is provided primarily to give the PDF file a nice look, but you can printit if you want to. If you do, you should probably print it on stiff card stock so it will be strong enoughto protect the inner pages. Duplex printing should begin with the first page of text — not with thecover.

2. Chop Pages

Using a paper guillotine, cut all the printed pages in half, giving you 50 pages measuring 414”x5 1

2”. Thepage you are reading now is page 1. Organize all the other pages so that the side with the little circlesis facing up and the circles are on the left edge of the page.

3. Hole-Punch Pages

Those circles are guide marks for a hole punch. With the small page size, we find that a hand-held,single-hole punch works best. Just punch the holes where the circles are. Use one of the pages as aguide for punching holes in your covers to ensure that the cover holes line up with all the others.

4. Bind Pages

With all your pages punched and stacked in order, place a cover on the front and back of the stack,lining up all the punched holes. You can bind your book loosely by using loose binding rings, availableat any stationery store, or you can get a tight binding by looping a cable tie through each hole andpulling snugly. And don’t forget to smooth off the ends of the cable ties if you cut them. They makeexcellent skin slicers if you don’t.

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