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Here's a 1980s use of storyboarding / animatic in a music video...
"Take on Me" (1984) is a song by Norwegian pop band a-ha. The music video on MTV was directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation and live-action combination created using the technique of rotoscoping.
The Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Feature films and shorts
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films
Animation
http://www.archive.org/details/animationandcartoons
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Archive Mash-ups
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_mashups
The Film Wall
http://www.thefilmwall.com/
TFW or thefilmwall is a social website to get links to watch free movies online. We grow with your contributions of movies links. You can upload and share movies links to your favorite movies...
SIX BASIC SHOTS (yes, there are more)
1) Extreme Long Shot
Taken at a great distance. Almost always an exterior shot and shows much of the locale. Used a lot in Establishing shots
2) Long Shot
The distance between the audience and the stage in the live theatre
3) Full Shot
Barely including the whole body
4) Medium Shot
Knees to waste up. Useful for exposition scenes, carrying movement and for dialogue
5) Close Up
Concentrates on a relatively small object. HUMAN FACE
6) Extreme Close-Up
Might just show eyes or mouth
Grammar of TV + Film
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html
Types of Cinematic Shots
http://knol.google.com/k/types-of-cinematic-shots#
Shot Types
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/
Shot Types
http://simuli.blogspot.com/2009/04/shot-types.html
Instructional Video about shot types
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbsYgZ7d-8
Filmmaking Techniques > Educational
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1japIhKU9I
Hitchcock Stills
http://theletter.co.uk/index/3405/hitchcock_stills/full
Also helpful to view:
This compilation, using clips from The Fellowship of the Ring, introduces the terminology and devices of film.
http://youtu.be/oFUKRTFhoiA
Darling Darling website
http://www.darlingdarlingfilm.com
We viewed this film in class... comments by students: