Storyboard Artist

About this role

Media & Creative Production makes everything the company puts out: films, photography, live streams, podcasts and the vertical video that carries most of it.

Board films before they are shot, so the director, the client and the crew are all arguing about the same thing before anyone hires a camera.

Shoots are rarely in comfortable places — campuses, offices, plants, and mine sites on a plateau where the cloud comes down and takes the light with it. Crew is small, so people run their own department on the day.

Primary responsibilities

• Board scripts into shot-by-shot sequences a crew can shoot from
• Work with the director on staging, framing and how a sequence will actually cut
• Produce animatics with timing where a sequence needs to be judged before it is shot
• Draw quickly and clearly — this is a communication job, not an illustration job

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Illustration, Storyboarding and Visual Storytelling.

• Two or more years boarding for film or advertising
• Two or more years storyboarding, with a portfolio
• Drawing quickly and clearly — this is communication, not illustration
• Understanding of staging, framing and how a sequence cuts
• Working with a director

Preferred

None of these are required. They are the things that would help, and a strong application is regularly missing all of them.