A few years ago I worked on the HUNTED for Paramount Studios as a technical advisor along with Thomas Kier. As part of the Sayoc Combat Choreography team, we developed a system to better assist the cast not only in training the moves, but also to be able to tell the "story" within each fight sequence that the director, William Friedkin wanted to convey.
This called for combining two disciplines - the Martial with the Visual arts.
I did what I called FIGHT boards at the time.
William Friedkin does not use storyboards, so this was basically to assist everyone in
following what is happening during the fight beyond camera placement.
With FIGHT boards, not only is the camera placement there,
but the actual combat moves are accurate.
Therefore, the crew can also follow continuity precisely.
We also added visual aids that assisted makeup and wardrobe.
I'll post those at a later date.
We've found that this method affords filmmakers to work much more efficiently on other FX heavy projects.
It assists CGI animators, mo-cap and FX in the long run.
The whole process is smoother, because choreographer, trainer, technical advisor and storyboarder are basically one.
One side can troubleshoot for the other.
