One of the key techniques taught by the Hollywood Camera Work DVDs is to get out of the "sequential"� storyboard approach, where each thing that happens is seen as separate shots glued back to back, and instead get into a "parallel" blocking mind-set, where you work on multiple cameras at the same time, which creates a very different, and much more fluid, kind of blocking.

Per Holmes explains that storyboarding comes with a number of significant limitations that prevent maybe 90% of the techniques available to you as a director. He instead suggests to use the "parallel"� approach, already heavily used by traditional filmmakers, because it creates much more organic blocking. Also, because shots are written down as scene-diagrams, it allows you to use the other 90% of techniques that are otherwise impossible to storyboard.