Storyboards Research

Vicky also completed research into how to do story boards. Since this research, myself and Maddy have been drawing and colouring the story boards for our film opening. Below is Vicky’s research:

‘What is a storyboard?

According to Google a storyboard is a “sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.”

I think that the purpose of a storyboard is to make sure that your filming idea can work as you have to go through every single shot that you will use and so it will become evident if one shot is not feasible.

Here are some examples of a storyboard;

Drawn: 

Animated:

After we have drawn our storyboard, we will animate one so we know exactly what to do on the days of filming and no problems will arise on that day. Here is a programme that I found the most straight forward and effective that we could use (https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator);

I found this programme easy to use and very detailed as you could pick characters according to the time period and even change their details such as hair and eye colour would would be useful for getting it to mock up what our opening 2 minutes may look like.

However, the only slight problem I came across whilst trailing this programme was the fact that the storyboards seem to only be 2D which would be difficult to show the positions of the characters but after a lot of searching I realised you can pivot the character from side to side so this could be a way around the 2D problem.

Also, saving the storyboards is difficult as it seems to only do a certain amount of storyboards a time as these types of websites want you to join the membership and due to the costs this would not be feasible but with 4 of us in our group we could all do a select few storyboard boxes and then eventually sequence it together. Of course we cannot do this until the original draft storyboards are done which will be produced by hand.’