Story Boarding your video OR stills project
Since the Manfrotto school of Excellence Webinar 'Still in Motion' I have received a few requests to talk about storyboarding
As it says Wikipedia says 'Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence
Interestingly it also says that Disney came up with the idea in its current form in the 1930's
Well here goes, but before any of you out there think this is all about moving images think again
Storyboarding in my opinion is just a fancy expression for putting your ideas down on paper as part of the creative process, which importantly helps you not to take lots of shots you DON'T need while missing the ones you DO
I first began storyboarding some 3 years ago for my 'Bridge of Doom' project
I wanted to tell the story of how the intrepid spy lands in enemy territory on a secret mission to recover a map but was struggling to come up with just how the story would work in pictures
That is when I stumbled upon the storyboard template in Apple's Pages software, part of the iWork suite
It is in essence just a simple template which you drag and drop content, such as images, onto the template and there you go, just add notes such as props lighting etc
It looks so professional too, which DOES count when you are sharing your ideas and concepts with others