Storyboard

"The key to any smooth production is its organisation, and storyboarding is a key vertebra."

Storyboarding is a way for directors to blueprint that depicts key scenes such as setting, dialogue and action. It is an important part of pre-visualisation, used in major films to corporate advertising to help visualise what the filmmaker wants. 

 "...highlights the benefits of using storyboards as the skeletal basis of a scene's structure…"

Directors use this in order to create the perfect scene, as well as informing their actors on how they should portray the shot. 

Certain directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese have used storyboarding in movies such as Taxi Driver (1976) and Psycho (1960).