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How to Make a Storyboard II

3/15/2010 by Gilda Haas - 1 comment

 

 

This is a followup to January’s DIT video and article on How to Make a Storyboard.

 

This time I’ll give deeper instructions by going into the details of a storyboard assignment that I used in my class.  The information is provided in the short video below, as well as in a narrative form, which continues right under the video.   

 

How to Make a Storyboard: Part II from Gilda Haas on Vimeo.

 

The assignment has three parts:

 

  1. Goals and Assumptions
  2. Storyboard
  3. Prototype

 

 

GOALS AND ASSUMPTIONS

 

You can write out your goals and assumptions in a page or less.  To do this, you will answer three basic questions:

 

  1. Rationale: What is the purpose, or rationale, for your project?
  2. Learning outcomes: What do you expect people to learn?  What are the “takeaways?”  The learning outcomes?
  3. Pre-Knowledge: Does your audience need any pre-knowledge — things they already need to know — in order to benefit from your product?

 

 

Rationale

 

Here are examples of what a rationale might look like from three projects from the class:

 

rationale for cartoon

young workers rationalegreen gardener brochure

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How to Make a Storyboard I

1/19/2010 by Gilda Haas - 10 comments

 

Storyboards are a way to present the elements of a story in a sequence.  They are used a lot by people who make movies and other media to help them “see” a story and how the pieces work together before they spend a lot of time and money on a project.

 

When you are working on a team, storyboards are one way to get people, literally, on the same page.  Here is a 3-minute video on how to do that (the written-out version continues below the video).

 

 

How to Make a Storyboard from Gilda Haas on Vimeo.

 

 

Of course even storyboards have a story, which goes like this:

 

In the 1930s, an animator at Disney got the idea of drawing scenes on separate pieces of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to map out short cartoons like Steamboat Willie.  It was a big hit and became the Disney way of doing things — and eventually everyone else’s.

 

first storyboard

 

There are a lot of comic books in my house.  Comic books are the quintessential storyboard.  They contain scenes, narration, dialogue and sound effects all laid out in a nice sequence for the reader.

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