Portlynn Tagavi - Assignment 1 - ACTOIN STUDY (Star Wars)

So here you go Dave. 

It was really weird to not just copy what was going on exactly and try to think of them as if the movie wasn't made yet. after a while it got easier and i didn't want to stop, but i still don't think i really broke into that mind set of not just copying the frame.

Learned lots about cutting though! and I'm excited about doing some more studies, action scenes are fun, but weird.  When they were fighting I wasn't sure how detailed I needed to be with the specific fight moves. like with every hit, did i need to board it? I'm so used to making animatics that it's still a grey area for me of how many boards i need to do to say something.

p.s. I do see the movement of the characters across the page, it's really cool how that works!

Questions

1. When you're doing a fight scene or an action scene of any kind, do you board absolutely everything as if it were the movie(each swing of the saber), or just enough to get the story across?

2. And when doing shots that involve a moving camera, how do you board that. do you have an in between board to indicate the camera shift or when you're pitching do you just say that to the audience?

3. Also with moving objects. like something flying in the air or jumping or falling. can you have arrows indicating the direction or is that not allowed, because i read in a book that it wasn't good to do that?

Sorry for all these questions.

Thanks so much Dave for taking the time to look over this!