What is a storyboard?

In today's lesson, we learnt about the process of storyboarding, why it is important and what is included on a storyboard. We learnt about exploring the style and use of storyboarding whilst learning to understand how to storyboard our own concepts.

Storyboarding is important and it is a beneficial way of not wasting time as it helps to plan and organise before shooting. It helps to visualise what you will eventually be filming and helps to also visualise what it will all look like even after editing. Storyboarding is a useful way of experimenting with different ideas and thoroughly considering each shot separately. 

A storyboard will include...

- shot number (this helps to order the sequence and know which shot you are working on)

- location (this helps to identify the different locations needed which is beneficial if you don't want to work in linear order)

- action (this is helpful so people know what is going to happen in each different shot)

- shot/movement (this helps to know what camera movement will be involved, shot changes used)

- sound (this helps to know what types of sound will be used e.g dialogue)

- lighting (this is helpful to know if any preparation will be needed for the lighting)

- transitions (this is helpful to know what types of transitions will be used from shot to shot)

- timing (this helps to know how long each shot duration will be)

Here are some things we will need to consider when creating our storyboard...

- camera composition and framing e.g rules of thirds, foreground and background, symmetry and asymmetry

- editing e.g consider the final product... will those shots flow seamlessly together?

- start with a step by step shot by shot not the drawing part

- number them at the end as things might change 

- arrows might be useful to show camera movement in the drawings