Purpose of Storyboarding
Storyboarding is a part of the pre-production of most movies and digital games. The purpose of it is to help visualize what the film or digital movie is going to look like. Not only does storyboarding help you to visualize your film or digital game but it also helps to make sure that the story makes sense and links together appropriately. For example I made a storyboard where a kid named josh was getting bullied and then mistakenly changing his name half way through. I would notice on the story board the it doesn’t make sense
The purpose of storyboarding is to help make decisions in the pre-production of the film to make sure that the story is good enough to start the actual production, this saves money and helps the story writer visualize the scenes step by step so that not only he can see what the final product will look like but also the production team around him.
The purpose of storyboarding is to help brainstorming and to process the producers ideas into a series of illustrations and cartoons with small captions explaining what is going on in the scenes. Brainstorming is a great example of a purpose of storyboarding as before making nearly any production whether It be a large movie project, an animated cartoon, a comic strip of even a flow chart the first step is nearly always brainstorming onto a storyboard to give the producer a rough idea what this production is going to look like before going through with it.
After brainstorming for the storyboard you should be left with lots of ideas, these ideas should now be translated into small illustrations in order to tell a story, making sure that all the ideas you have will work and make sense in the same story. For example I have brainstormed a movie to be about a terrorist attack, inside a school or a college with a student hero that saves the college. From then I will draw a short series of illustrations that puts all of these ideas together and then make sure it makes sense. My first picture will be the first scene of the move that has an illustration of a kid inside a classroom getting bullied. To help to explain this scene to other people, I will add captions at the bottom. In this example, the super hero kid sat in the middle of class being bullied.
Another purpose of storyboarding is to create a final storyboard, a final storyboard is once the creators are satisfied with their rough drawings, and they will then proceed to do a series of full color illustrations to create a more finished story board. These colors will be used to set the scene of the movie. Carrying on with my previous example where I would’ve written my first rough storyboard, I will then draw the picture of the boy in the classroom getting bullied in color to make a more finished look for other people to see and give their opinion.


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