Film Studies: 5 Tips to Get Started
Back in October I finished work on a project that took me more than two years: sketching out Terminator 2 in its entirety. Every day, before I began working, I’d do a single page of 12 panels, picking up where I left off the day before. At the steady pace of 12 panels per day I made my way through the entire film. And now it’s done: 438 pages, 5256 panels... So at this point, you might wonder if I’m insane, but to me sketching out complete movies is -by far- the best way to grow your visual storytelling skills and to study films. And I don’t understand why more people aren’t doing this. I’ve written about these daily studies before , but because over time my process for doing these studies evolved I feel it is good to do this follow up post. So how does it work? First of all you’ll need a movie. I recommend to work with a digital copy that you can open in Quicktime, so that you can pause it and go back and forth one frame at a time. I don’t like working with streaming services for my
