Storyboard
Planning is essential to a successful video! Storyboards are graphic organizers which show the scenes in a multimedia project in a rough drawing form. A storyboard will help you visualize how the content chunks relate to each other and will help to shape the direction of your efforts as you create your project. With a storyboard, you are able to map out your original ideas for communication to your viewers. Evaluating the storyboard will allow you to make adjustments during the early formative stage while revisions are still quite simple to do.
How to Create Your Storyboard
- Write down key points, ideas, and concepts under consecutive storyboard frames (see attached).
- Your storyboard should in essence be a type of map, outlining all the major steps needed to complete the learning objective(s) for that lesson.
- Make rough sketches of visuals for each frame. Don’t worry about polish at this point; you just want the idea of the visual clearly portrayed.
- Read your presentation while looking at the storyboard and complete the storyboard checklist:
- Does my visual clearly display one key idea from my presentation?
- Is my aid as visually simple as I can make it?
- Can my audience understand my visual completely in less than 30 seconds?
- You can create your storyboard on paper or various software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Inspiration
Examples of Storyboards
- Paper
- Word or PowerPoint (using the organizational chart or flowchart)
- Inspiration creating something unique
Last updated: 11/18/2014