The purpose of a storyboard is to plan out the action, storyline and scenes which will be in an audiovisual product. This can include things such as film, animation, TV adverts and Television programs. You use a storyboad to plan the shot types that need to be taken, the mise-en-scene and angles to use throughout the product that you are creating. Storyboards show the chronological order of the scenes and it is a pre-production document that focuses on the main action of the scenes. A storyboard would be a document that will be used in all stages of a production, a script is also used in all stages of production as it will need to be referenced back to in editing when trying to sinc the audio and visuals.
A script would be completed before a storyboard as a storyboards is the visual representation of the script that has been created.
Key action in a scene.
Larger companies like Disney would have actual graphic designers to create the story board and that would be their job role just to create it.
What are the main features of a storyboard? - effectiveness of a storyboard (why it is effective)
- Captions to explain the key piece of dialogue in each scene
- Text to show shot type
- Information to describe the action
- Illustration to show the shot type and mise-en-scene - especially location of shots (INT - interior, EXT - exterior)
- Numbers to show the order of the storyboard and action
- Arrows to show the direction of movement of the actor
- Camera movement shown through arrows
- Transition/ Editing info tells you whether the editing is a cut or a fade etc.
- Timings of each scene - in seconds
- SFX that would be on screen during the scenes
- Logo/ Title Graphics which are any words that show on screen as a part of the scene
- COULD be adapted
A storyboard is very effective however it could be seen to have some ineffectve features such as how you would need to have someone who has some graphic design skills in order to communicate the ideas. Also you need more than one pre-production document because you need a script in order to create the storyboard as you need it in order to explain the narrative of the story. There is not much information on the storyboard which is due to annotations being brief (needs to be brief due to it being used by the cameraperson as a visual product to aid the script). Any permissions, legal and ethical, and feeback on ideas is done early on as it is hard to change a storyboard once it has been created, it could also delay the making of a storyboard. Annotations need to be justified and cleat.
- Music Video
- Film trailer
- TV advert
- Film
- Animation
- Computer games
What promotional videos include:
- Always include the product
- Show establishing shots of the building (school)
- Shots of different subjects
- Graphics and texts (quotes)
- Images of kids
Storyboards in the exam
Spend no more than 12 to 15 minutes in the exam
- Shot types
- Angle
- Editing info - "cut to"
- Location info - where? (EXT or INT)
- Key sounds - dialogue ( &who says it), music (pace - upbeat, slow, none diegetic)
- Illustration (drawing) - matches shot type
- Camera movements - arrows
- Timings
- What is happening in each scene or shot
Tips for the exam -
- DO NOT spend more than 25 minutes
- Unlike a sitemap or a visualisation diagram already have the annotations on it
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