As you watch a Movie you will observe that it changes from one view to another as the story

unfolds. You will see close up shots and long shots and shots from varying angles. The different

shots produce effect and add to the atmosphere of the story.

The data displayed in Figure 16.1 is contained in a single Blender file and will Render into a

single Video File. It would seem to follow that to produce different shots to make up a Movie you

would create multiple Blender files. This is not the case, since instead, you can have multiple

Scenes in a Blender File

The default Blender file contains one Scene which houses the data for Rendering to a Video File.

Instead of creating multiple Blender files you add Scenes within a Blender file. Each Scene will

Render to a separate Video File. Each Scene will contain separate Collections, Canvases and

Layers.

As you can see, to keep track of the different Scenes and their content, you have to be

organised. To demonstrate the logic of the process the simple Animation Sequence of Perpetual

Motion created in Chapter 11 – 11.10 will be employed.

The Perpetual Motion Sequence saw a Ball bouncing around inside a Circle in a 30 Frame

Animation. 30 Frames at 24 Frames per second (default Frame Rate) = 1.25 seconds of

Animation.

16.1 The Storyboard

Even at this stage you have to be mindful of what the final outcome is to be. 1.25 seconds may

be what you want. Think of any TV commercial. Some displays on the Screen are even shorter

than this. For this demonstration the sequence will be extended.

The plan will be to create three video clips which eventually will be combined into a single movie

file. Let's say have the Ball bounce around for approximately 3.75 seconds (30 frames at 24

Frames per second times three) which will be the first clip (Scene 1). The second clip will see a

second ball introduced to the Scene with both bouncing for another 3.75 seconds (Scene 2)

followed by more Balls bouncing for yet another 3.75 seconds (Scene 3).

When combined the clips will produce a Video File which will play for 11.25 seconds.

The above plan constitutes the Storyboard for the production.

Figure 16.2

Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3

As the Video plays Bouncing Ball displays are added at intervals.

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