Storyboarding Class First Reading

In reading the first 50 pages of Shot by Shot, I found it very helpful for my own understanding of visualization and story building to have the writer provide so many tangible examples of the storyboarding process in various well known movies. What I personally found the most interesting was the idea that often art directors were not directly involved in the storyboarding and the design illustrations. Directors like Hitchcock were actually straying from the norm in the way that he also developed his own storyboard sketches. This seems like a key element that would have to take place in production otherwise how would the director ensure his or hers ideas come to fruition. Ultimately I know that a screenplay on its own can not fully develop and guide the aesthetics of a film like a storyboard can, and things like mood, locale, composition and staging of an action can become ambiguous in the form of words only. I also like viewing stoaryboarding through the light of creating new possibilities and different ways of coming up with solutions. This was a perspective that the reading definitely imparted on me.