Plain Lab · notebook
Storyboard Notebook
A frame at the top of the page, ruled notes below it at a 4.94 mm pitch, split before you start drawing.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- storyboard
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
A blank page invites a panel drawn too large, and then there is nowhere left on the sheet for the line of dialogue or the shot number that has to sit next to it. This page is split before you start: a frame at the top for the drawing, ruled lines below it at a 4.94 millimetre pitch for everything the drawing cannot carry on its own.
Thirty-five lines of that ruling run under each frame, enough for a shot description, a duration, and a line of dialogue without crowding any of them into the margin. One hundred and ten pages are built this way, one frame and its notes per page, so a sequence runs forward through the book in the same order it is meant to play out.
The frame is not big enough for a finished drawing and was never meant to be. It is big enough to remember what happens in it before the next one starts.
What is inside
- Split pages
- 110pp
- A frame at the top, ruled lines below at 4.94 mm, thirty-five rows to the page.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Two-Point Perspective PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Semi-Log NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- One-Point Perspective PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Polar Grid NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
How is each page split?
A frame at the top for the drawing, ruled lines below it for notes.
What is the pitch of the ruled section?
4.94 mm, thirty-five rows under each frame.
How many split pages are there?
One hundred and ten.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and twenty pages, six sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts at the first frame.
You see we have here drawn something, which we have not known about before, out of this solution.
