Storyboarding

If you tell a story, you try to entice the audience into imagining its content. However, if you show the audience, you must rely less on telling and more on showing.

Storyboards are a series of sketches that are used as a planning tool to visually show how the action of a story unfolds.

• While at Sucker Punch, former art director Edward Pun worked with a four-man team whose members combined pencils, storyboarding, line art and ink, drawing the material for the cut scenes before handing the photoshop plates off to the video production lead.

Who's Storyboard?

• Advertising - Used to sell campaign strategies to clients. Highly detailed including key frames only.
• Television - Used to storyboard complex sequences - eg. CSI, The West Wing.
• Video Games - Take a lot of pre-planning. Once developed game designers storyboard for key events, cut scenes.

Remember

Questions to ask while storyboarding:

1. Is each drawing necessary?
2. Is the information of each drawing clear?
3. Consider the type of camera shot.
4. Consider the lighting of the scene.
5. Consider the dialogue of the scene.
6. Consider the sound/music.