ABSTRACT
Time seems to slow to a crawl and stop when you are listening to a dull speaker. A short lecture given in a monotone can appear to last for hours rather than a few minutes. Conversely, a good speaker who varies his or her inflection and pacing can make a long speech fly by and leave the audience wanting more. A film's editing and pacing can correspond to natural pauses and punctuation in human speech. Evenly paced visual rhythms can be just as monotonous as speech that lacks inflection. This chapter shows storyboards for a fast action sequence that takes place in several locations. Dialogue provides another way of timing the storyboard. It's much easier to board dialogue scenes than "free timed" comedy or action, since the dialogue sets limitations on the length of the scenes. The dialogue spacing underneath the boards will change the timing of the scene and the character acting.
