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Hi, students, and welcome to a unit on Storyboarding.
By now you have learned about developing the content,
the story, the case study as well as some principles of instructional design.
Now you are ready for the storyboarding process,
and to do one yourself.
But before you do it yourself,
it is important to review some formats of storyboarding,
and to understand what is a storyboard
and what its purpose is, or role is, in the software evaluation process.
Generally speaking, storyboarding is a critical part
of the educational software development process,
as it provides a road map or a blueprint to follow
as technical experts begin programming the designs
instructional designers plan out.
As you embark on this module and unit,
think of the following questions.
What is a storyboard?
What are its origins?
What are storyboards u- used for?
And where are storyboards used?
What is a storyboard?
Storyboards have been described by Wikipedia as, quote,
"Graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images
displayed in sequence for a purpose of pre-visualizing
a motion picture, animation, motion graphic
or interactive media sequence." Unquote.
Storyboarding was originally developed and used by Walt Disney Studio
in the early 1930s, which everybody modeled after.
Origins.
The earliest sightings of storyboards in Walt Disney films
was in 1933 for Disney's "Three Little Pigs" episode.
Apparently, the first storyboards at Disney
evolved from a comic book-like, quote, "story sketches," unquote,
created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoons
such as "Plane Crazy" and "Steamboat Willie."
Within a few years, the idea spread to other studios
and everyone was making storyboards prior to film production.
In reviewing pictures of Disney's storyboards,
they were drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper
pinned up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence,
thus creating the first storyboard.
Usage in Film.
Similar to the creation of Disney's cartoons,
producers of film and TV began using storyboards
to illustrate and capture screen shots for their video production.
These storyboards began with hand-sketches
pinned to the wall in sequence,
and then moved to increasingly sophisticated forms of storyboarding
as technology improved.
However, the concept remained the same,
which was to produce in sequence the images of the animation
to be recreated using video technology.
Usage in Animatics.
In the case of anama- animations, otherwise called animatics,
a similar storyboarding process occurs,
however, with more digital supports.
An animatic is defined as a, quote,
"series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence
with a rough dialogue and/or rough soundtrack
added to the sequence of still images, usually taken from a storyboard,
to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together."
According to Wikipedia, the storyboarding stage
may be followed by simplified animatics
to give better idea of how the scene will look and feel
with motion and timing.
Usage in Photomatics.
In the case of photomatics, which is literally a photo-animation,
a storyboard in a series of still photographs is edited together
and presented on screen in a sequence.
Given the digital and graphical nature of photomatics,
Wikipedia describes this process of storyboarding
as embedding, quote, "voice-over, soundtrack and sound effects
to the piece to create a presentation
to show how a film could be shot and cut together." Unquote.
Synthesis Questions.
As we complete this module on Storyboarding 101,
we need to reflect on the origins and how Disney first used storyboards.
We also need to reflect on the evolution of both storyboarding
as well as the technological product,
and how technology progression affected storyboarding processes,
making the line between the storyboarding process
extremely similar to the final output or product.
We should look for examples of animatics and photomatics
in the World Wide Web to understand these concepts
more deeply.
As you begin to draw out your storyboard,
feel free to do it any which way that is most comfortable to you.
You can sketch ske- scenes of the storyboard by hand
the way Disney's Studio originally did.
You can use PowerPoint or any other better suited software
or method out there.
Good luck.