This is a valuable tool to use in the Writing Process as well as in the Planning Process.

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, including website interactivity.

A storyboard for an 8-minute animated cartoon.

The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

Ideas

• Use paper folding to create a storyboard
• use index cards
• Post-it stickers
• Comic Books
• create a template and copy
• Use a story tree idea
• Graphic Organisers
• Inspiration/Kidspration
• Mapping software/story Webs
• Bring Drawing into the idea
  • If you can tell or draw a good story - you are well on the way..
• Digital Photography

Story Board templates

http://ftvstudy.com/page24/page24.html

http://xinsight.ca/tools/storyboard.html

http://karenjlloyd.com/blog/free-storyboard-template-downloads/

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/storyboarding/c.html

Creating Templates and using models

• FileMaker StoryBoard
  • great blank templates
• Using PowerPoint templates
  • Also great for creating templates and using for models
• Using Comic Works

Website

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
• http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/reporting/starttofinish/storyboarding/
• http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/
• http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/storyboarding.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/Storyboarding.html
• http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_3.html
• http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/guidebook/storyboard_example.html

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yeI83fN6s

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2412052664775629371

Keywords for a search

• Storyboarding
• Storyboard techniques
• Storyboard examples
• Storyboard templates
• Storyboard sketches
• Storyboard drawing
• Drawing Storyboards
• Graphic Organisers