What is a storyboard for ?

When we are making a video , planning is an extremely important part of the whole process . One of the most important stages of planning is creating a storyboard . A storyboard is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold , shot by shot . It's made up of squares with illustrations or pictures representing each shot , with notes about what is going on in the scene and what's being said in the script during that shot . Storyboard is some sort of a comic book version of our script .



A storyboard is the same thing and has the same function in the film as an outline does in written projects . The storyboard really helps the director to visualize the flow of camera shots and have a clear idea and understanding of what he wants to appear on the screen . We don't need to draw very detailed pictures , it can just be a rough one . Looking at the storyboard and having all the shots that are going to be filmed on one paper it is easier to see whether the director's ideas are gong to work on the screen and whether they are laid out correctly and how it visually looks . Storyboard really helps to have a visual understanding of the sequence of shots , movement of actors , lighting , etc. It is not always necessary for the director who is filming a proper film to draw every single shot , but for us , as we are only creating a 3 minutes music video is necessary to cover all the shots in the storyboard .

How to do a rough storyboard 

1). Divide the story into its logical , nonlinear parts

2). Decide what piece of the story works best in the video 

3). Decide what piece of the story work best in still photo 

4). What part of the story works best in the graphic

5). Does the story need a map ?

6). What part of the story belongs in the text