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As for every
well-prepared movie an immense amount of work had to be spent on the scriptwriting.
For Oi!WARNING we wrote five complete drafts of the script and more than
ten work-in-progress versions. We used the long time of raising the budget
for the project with some more creative work on the script. During the
final script-session we realized that we had been to the point where written
changes donít improve the quality of the movie anymore, but only the dramatic
style of the script.
As long as we are interested in films we have been admiring the work of
american storyboard-artists. A good storyboard does not only simplify
the shooting but it also reduces the budget. It´s also a necessary
transformation of the script into images, movie-images, which have their
very own syntax and rhythm.
One year before the shooting we started to transform the script into a
storyboard. But we wanted more than just the sketches of each shot of
the movie: The storyboard should also fix the camera-movements, the dialogue
and all extra sounds.
In the end we filled over 200 pages with the drawings of all the proposed
shots of Oi!WARNING (in total over 65o drawings. The completed picture
contains 783 cuts, of which 647 cuts are shots).
Drawing the pictures and writing the decriptions took more than one year.
You'll find an excerpt of the storyboard on the link "The Storyboard".
You may notice that for all the film-departments the storyboard was an
inspiring help and a superb source of their creativity. Set-design as
well as costume and especially the cameradepartment tried to keep the
spirit of the storyboard while shooting. Especially for the non-professional
actors the drawings have been an enormous help for understanding the story
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