Research - Story boards

Before sketching a storyboard for my group I had to do research into what makes an effective storyboard.

A storyboard is a graphic method in organizing a series of illustrations or images displayed in a sequence in order to pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity.

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When looking at this example of a storyboard I found out that the animation skills didn’t have to be perfect but aim to outline the camera angle/shot size and the  expression & positioning of the characters. There were also practicalities that I had to take into consideration when filming, I couldn’t be to unrealistic with my illustrations of different actions, to make sure that different frames were practical I went out with a camera and tested how the shots would look when filmed. Doing these test runs made sure that as a group we didn’t waste time or come across any major difficulties when filming our teaser trailer.

Artist Douglas Ingram

In conclusion even though this example was useful, when I went into further research I found another example of a story board but this time with annotations of shot size and frame number, this was visually helpful for me to add in my own story board because when filming, who ever may be operating the camera will know exactly what is going on, since the frames are numbered as well being able to know which size shot to film in next and as a result it will allow our filming to run smoothly, none the less a convention that remains the same in both examples is that the both illustrator made sure that the facial expressions of the subjects where visible.