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This video will demonstrate one way to create a storyboard for your digital story.
Your digital story storyboard will be an essential part of your video development. The storyboard
will help you plan your video. What do you want your video to look and feel
like? What do you want to happen first? And after that?
The storyboard also helps you plan out the “interaction: how the audio—the voice-over
narrative of your story and the music—interacts with the images or video.
In addition, a storyboard is also a notation of where and how visual effects such as transitions,
animations, or compositional organization of the screen will be used” (Lambert, 2010).
It is important to create a storyboard for your digital story because it allows you to
think about the different aspects about your video. You will be able to combine the script
and the media that you plan to use on your digital story.
The beauty of storyboarding lays in the fact that it could edited time and time again.
It all depends on what your vision is for your digital story.
To begin your process, you will download the blank storyboard from the HCOM328L iLearn
site under the “storyboards” topic. Once you have saved the blank storyboard, you may
move on to the next step. You will be entering the script you wrote
in the Latina Life Stories theory course. To do so follow these steps: 1) Open your
blank storyboard document. 2) Open your script. 3) Copy your script by selecting the script
in the document, then right click, and copy. 4) Navigate to your blank storyboard document.
5) Right click in the first column titled script, finally click on paste. After completing
these steps, you are ready to time yourself to have a rough estimate of the length of
your digital story. 1) Read your story aloud and identify how
long it took to read each phrase by writing under the column named “time” which is
#3. Remember you’ll want to visualize the story as you go about this process.
Under the “multimedia” section, you will write out any visuals you have about the phrase
beside it. For example you can write the name on an image you know will work there. You
can write down any audio that will help the video.
Questions to consider for this portion: Are there any specific transitions that you would
like to include? Would you like to add an effect to an image? Would you like to have
text throughout your digital story? As you imagine your digital story what do you see?
Be sure to write this information down in the multimedia column.
To create a great your storyboard for your digital story, all you need is your script
and your imagination. Be sure to take full advantage of this tool, you will get much
out of it. Remember it’s the basic plans to finish your digital story.
Please follow the steps provided in the iLearn topic titled “Storyboards”