Storyboarding Workshop

Storyboarding is a sequence of pictures communicating the desired visual appearance on camera of a scene/movie (it's an ILLUSTRATOR's JOB!)

The process of visual thinking and planning allows a group of people to brainstorm together, placing their ideas on storyboards

Aims?

• Communicating an idea of sequence
• Next stage - plot, lighting, characters, action
• Scale and composition

There are four types of key movement:

• Position
• Pan 
• Track
• Zoom

Task: Spend 50 minutes creating three 9-frame storyboards based on one of your sketches.

My first storyboard was kept fairly simple, zooming into the flame of a bunsen burner.

I then tried something a little more complex in terms of narrative and key movement with an explosion in a test tube.

And again I developed the narrative and key movements a little more with an LSD trip.

Reflection

Learning about storyboarding has opened my eyes to sequential imagery, and sparked some potential thoughts and ideas for my animation. From here I will think about music that would coincide with the narrative sequence I would like to put together, as well as the colour scheme and types of imagery.