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Subject: [Leica] Translation question - help needed
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:01:06 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> 
wrote:
> Daniel, thanks for the suggestion.
>
> It's not really a storyboard in this case - there's no story. The client
> only wants several shots of a car in a particular studio setting and a 
> bunch
> of close ups of various details for a catalogue.
>

Close-ups of various details is a "story". There doesn't have to be a
story there to be called a story board. It can even be empty:

http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/hard_black_cover/storyboard_notebook__pocket.php

:-)


> Just individual shots - no continuity as usually included in a storyboard
> for an ad.
>
> Here, the setting is defined, the mood, the lighting, the colour
> predominance and which bits of the car are to be shot and an outline is
> given of how and from what angles.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
>
> Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>
>> Storyboard is exactly what came to my mind. It's the kind of thing
>> manuscript writers use all the time when it's time to shoot. Well,
>> maybe not the writers themselves, but those involved with transferring
>> the manuscript to a visual.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Storyboard?
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
>>>> Subject: [Leica] Translation question - help needed
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>, "LEG"
>>>> <leica at freelists.org>
>>>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:49 PM
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm stuck slap bang in the middle of an argument with a
>>>> fellow translator about the translation of the German term
>>>> "Denkzettel" in the context of photography.
>>>>
>>>> What is meant is a document presented by the client to the
>>>> photographer that lays out the concept to be shot, how it is
>>>> to be realised and what shots are needed for what purpose.
>>>>
>>>> His translation is "Working notes on photo
>>>> shoot", which I think is a little contrived and
>>>> possibly an excuse for not knowing what a
>>>> "Denkzettel" actually is.
>>>>
>>>> My suggested translation is a "Photo shoot
>>>> brief". (I'm not too sure of the terminology either
>>>> :-) )
>>>>
>>>> Is this anything near the right expression for what I
>>>> described above?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
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