If you really want to previsualize your project before shooting, either for your own benefit or to pitch a project to financiers, your boss, or your mom, consider doing a “living storyboard”- that means:

• draw storyboard frames
• use the “Photo” button on your camcorder to capture each storyboard frame to DV tape
• capture the “footage”
• edit the stills together in your editing software
• do a scratch audio track in which you do all the voices (and music and sound effects- and even comment on certain

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