If you were to make a storyboard equivalent of a 100 page screenplay, how many storyboard pages would that be, assuming each page has 3 to 4 panels?
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That's a very difficult question to answer. Almost nobody, as a rule, storyboards every single shot of a screenplay. Plus, depending on the shot, you sometimes take several panels to indicate something like a pan or a zoom in or a dolly shot, so a single shot might "track" across several panels, just for the sake of clarity.
Depending what's on the page -- a simple dialogue sequence, or ten people around a table talking, or a major action sequence, you might have twenty panels, or fifty, or a hundred.
In the same way, you might have a movie consisting largely of dialogue, or a big action picture, and so you might have a movie averaging twenty panels a page or fifty.
But generally, people tend to only storyboard things that where camera placement is going to be problematic -- not just action sequences, but things like parties with lots of people moving around a room and people at tables with lots of eye line changes. That's the stuff where story-boarding can help to clarify camera placement.
But do you really need dozens of panels of two shots and reverses?
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