Today’s Class

• Introduction
• Storyboarding for Multimedia
• Day 1 Task
• Storyboarding for Webdesigners
• Storyboard Templates
• Assessment Task
• Feedback

Introduction

This workshop is about creating storyboards. A storyboard is a number of drawings, descriptions and annotations that help organising a story visually.

A storyboard is helpful in establishing a number of steps within a story. It will support you in organising the elements and give your story a clear focus.

Storyboards are used in a number of fields and industries:

• film and TV
• animation
• choreography
• theatre
• dance
• opera
• web design
• game design
• writing
• other multimedia fields

Storyboarding a film is quite different from storyboarding a website.

Storyboards can be created using software or it can be created with pen and paper.

Pen and Paper

When you create a storyboard on paper I recommend to use colours and plenty of annotations.

Software

Most software packages will allow you to create storyboards:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Corel Draw
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint

There are also some specialised software packages for creating storyboards:

• StoryBoard Artist Studio
• StoryBoard Pro
• Inspiration

There are also numerous websites that allow you to create storyboards:

• Storyboard That

Storyboarding for Multimedia

Please follow the link below and read How to Do a Rough Storyboard by Jane Stevens.

After reading the post please complete the task below.

Day 1 Task

Please open the file and complete in class: Day 1 Task – Create Storyboard

Storyboarding for Webdesigners

Webdesigners benefit from storyboarding. It helps organising content and ensures that every element is included in a logical place according to topic and site.

Read the post on Storyboarding Your Website (Source: nmasse.com).

Storyboard Templates

Below are a number of links for storyboard templates:

Search Google Docs for Templates

Storyboard Template

Storyboard template (Courtesy of http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu )

Assessment Task

The assessment task will be included in (clustered with)  C1 – Design Simple Website Layouts.

Feedback

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