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How does a director use storyboards to plan and to persuade a studio (Ridley Scott's account)?

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In the archived BAFTA transcript, Ridley Scott says he boards every film and now draws boards himself, and attributes a budget rise 'from four point two to eight point five' to a storyboard (as told; units not stated).

In the archived BAFTA transcript, Ridley Scott says he boards every film and now draws boards himself, and attributes a budget rise 'from four point two to eight point five' to a storyboard (as told; units not stated). Curator qualifications: Anecdote, not verified budget data; film and currency/units not stated in the passage read. Four-camera and camera-operator statements (E2) not re-read in full. Text only. Limitations: Single first-person account. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190626035436id_/http://www.bafta.org/media-centre/transcripts/bafta-a-life-in-pictures-sir-ridley-scott",
      "note": "BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Ridley Scott transcript (archive id_ 2019-06-26), boarding passage"
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  • [sourced_fact] In the archived BAFTA transcript, Ridley Scott says he boards every film and now draws boards himself, and attributes a budget rise 'from four point two to eight point five' to a storyboard (as told; units not stated). · locator: BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Ridley Scott transcript (archive id_ 2019-06-26), boarding passage source

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