Storyboards

Once you've got your story nailed in your script, then the next step in the process of realising your animation is to build storyboards.

Although the storyboards tell the story of your script, they are very different to.  There is, potentially, a lot more information you can put down in a storyboard than you can in a script.

Specific shots for example don't have any place on a script. 

How the shot is framed, from whose viewpoint and other vital information cannot be conveyed in a script either.

Storyboarding therefore is a CREATIVE PROCESS.  You are, essentially, writing the film again.

What's important then? 

The basic unit of the storyboard is the SHOT.

The theory is: every shot should be designed to maximise the emotion of the scene, by telling the story of the scene through the characters.

How do we do that?  By writing or drawing (you don't need to be able to draw to do a storyboard!) certain information.  Things like, framing, camera movement, viewpoint, cuts and other shot transitions.

I also include sound on my storyboards.  I don't see why not.  If you're drawing a shot and you think of a piece of music that might work with it, jot it down.  Or a sound effect, jot it down.

There is a standard template we use, which includes spaces for all the important information.  It's up on blackboard on your part of the site.

Here's a little basic bit about storyboarding to get you started. 

http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/