Moving Pictures - The Storyboard Process

The Director M. Night. Shyamalan, who directed such films as The Village, Unbreakable, Signs and The Sixth Sense, storyboards in great detail. He does this in order to test ideas in advance, to make key decisions, to plan the time of each scene and to be specific. By storyboarding M. Night. Shyamalan becomes the actor, the audience as well as the director. He believes that storyboarding is "Making the movie before your making the movie". Storyboards are good to use because they are a point of reference when filming and they are the worst version of the film so what is produced must be better.

Sound is also storyboarded. Sound is very powerful and important in film because it adds tension and sets the atmosphere. In The Sixth Sense vasts amount of sound was used to add tension. Human breaths were used as well as the sound of people crying, groaning and screaming. This was done to create emotion and to add a spiritual feel to the film. In The Village a bell chime was repeated so many times it was made into a humming sound. This sound was then used to represent a woman.