Storyboarding- Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity.

The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.



A film storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help film directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement. Normally there is a caption of information breifly stating what the shot includes, or what sort of shot will be needed. For example, wide shot etc.

A storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. And in the case of interactive media, it is the layout and sequence in which the user or viewer sees the content or information. In the storyboarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film or interactive media project can be efficiently described either in picture, or in additional text.

Here is an example of a storyboard for the company Yell-:

Some live-action film directors, such as Joel and Ethan Coen, use storyboard extensively before taking a pitch to their funders, stating that it helps them to get the support they require, since they can show exactly where the money will be used. Alfred Hitchcock's films were strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by the majority of commentators over the years, although later research indicates that this was exaggerated for publicity purposes. Akira Kurosawa was known, particularly in his later years, for painstaking detail in his storyboarding, to the degree that the storyboard paintings for Ran (for which he storyboarded every shot) are regarded as fine works of art in themselves. Other directors storyboard only certain scenes, or none at all. Animation directors are usually required to storyboard extensively, sometimes in place of writing a script.

more storyboards are shown-:

This storyboard A storyboard for a Taco Bell television campaign.

The storyboard above is one about cricket, this is visually colourful with captions under each clip.