3. Storyboard

Storyboards can take many different looks and feel.  Some are simple as stick people, others may have a photo taken with their phone and placed in a storyboard frame.

The following video gives a quick overview of a storyboard.

For our course, we will include the following items on our boards

• shot type  (the picture must represent the shot type)

• shot duration (time in min:sec:frames) - generally seconds is all you will use

• script  for the talent

• shooting directions for the camera person

• audio effects 

To create you storyboard frame you do not need to be an artist.  You can use stick figures or even better, use a camera and walk through your scene taking still images of how you imagine the final scene will be shot.  Your storyboard is the blueprint to the scene.  If everyone in the class was given the same storyboard, the final videos for each persons should be relatively the same, just as if a contractor was given a blueprint to a house, all the houses would look the same.