How I approach preproduction has drastically changed over the past several months. I did not have a way to do preproduction for lower budget nonprofit and corporate video projects that wasn’t going to put me way over in hours. I used to create PDF documents for my treatments which for me would take a very long time. I would also try to storyboard the majority of the video by hand which was also very time consuming. I recently came across the glory that is Pinterest and a friend of mine introduced me to Adobe Spark and now everything has changed.

From Pinterest I am able to gather enough reference images from other filmmakers and create a short video from them. I am also able to make a treatment with them with Adobe Spark.

Here is the Adobe Spark treatment: https://spark.adobe.com/page/GATsFETwoapO8/

Screen shot from preproduction treatment on Adobe Spark

The main part I storyboarded and did preproduction for was the intro to the video. Here is the final video so you can see how it turned out.