  Wednesday, September 17, 2008  Storyboarding Q & A : 1  I get
a lot of questions about storyboarding and it occurred to me
that I should post them here with my thoughts. I got some great
questions recently, and here they are:  I wanted to ask you
about emphasis and intensity and how those determine both the
shot selection you use in a scene/seq. In your view are these
basically the same thing(emphasis.intensity)?  In my opinion
emphasis and intensity are two very different things, and the
shot selection can vary widely between the two. Emphasis brings
attention or focus to a specific thing or situation in the
shot/scene. Intensity is the level of emotional reaction to that
situation. If I wanted to emphasize a man lost in the desert, I
would go with a wide shot and shoot down on him to show he is
small and the desert is large-- If I wanted to emphasize someone
lost in a labyrinth, I would go close and tight as if the walls
were closing in. If I wanted to increase the intensity for the
man lost in the desert