Story-Boarding

When you make a video for your business, whether it is a demo video, a sales video, a training video, or any short online business video, the most important thing is planning & one of the most important stages of planning out a video is creating a storyboard. Storyboard is a graphic representation of how shot by shot your video will unfold. It’s made up of a number of squares with illustrations or pictures representing each shot, with notes about what’s going on in the scene and what’s being said in the script during that shot.

The storyboard was developed by Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930’s. Storyboards can be defined as hand-drawn version which serves as the blueprint for the action and dialogue movie. A script page or a “beat outline” is given to each storyboard artist- a map of the characters' emotional changes that need to be seen through actions. The artists envision their assigned sequences, using these guidelines. The artist draws them out, and then “pitch” the work to the director. There are different approaches to storyboarding -some use colors, some only draw the outlines, some color in grayscale and some go really deep into the details. For the action-dialog of a feature-length Pixar animated film,more than four-thousand storyboard drawings are created as the blueprint. The films are revised many times during the creative development process. 

A biggest role of storyboards’ is to convey the story effectively, as close as possible to what the movie would look like at the end, which means that after someone goes through your storyboard they should understand the story well. 

A few things to help convey the story:

• Mention captions under the drawings.
• Use arrows to show camera movements.
• Color the object to differentiate it from the background.

How to Make a Storyboard?

1) Create blank slides.
2) Add your script.
3) Sketch your story.

Rules in Storyboarding:

1. Every scene must serve a purpose.
2. Do not move the camera unnecessarily.
3. Watch for “jump cuts”.
4. Watch your composition.
5. Watch your axis.
6. Avoid complicated angles.
7. Make sure that the animation and camera instructions in the action columns are extremely clear.
8. Watch your continuity.