Storyboarding


 * Storyboarding** (a lesson for students when preparing their book trailers)

A storyboard is a collection of sketches showing how to organize a story and a list of its contents.

__Storyboards:__
 * allow you to plan out your digital story in a visual way. Look at what happens first, next etc onto the last scene (the timing)
 * communicate your ideas about the story
 * make a blueprint for your video before the production stage
 * organise and develop the focus of the story
 * allow you to see the entire sequence flow/continuity) of your video
 * allow you to see what you are doing - and what to keep and what to cut out (unnecessary scenes/pictures, dialogue, etc)
 * enable you to work out the interaction between images (the visual transitions)
 * enable you to work out any dialogue (voiceovers) for the images
 * enable you to work out the music that will “go with” the images and enhance the feel/emotion you are looking for.

Your drawings must have meaning and portray feelings/emotions. A good storyboard will allow you to plan out the impact you intend to make on your audience.

__Consider:__ __Consider visual clues:__
 * 1) How long an image stays on the screen (3 seconds is often considered optimum)
 * 2) Too short viewers don’t get the visual clues, too long and it becomes boring
 * Low angle (viewer may get a sense of danger, threat, up against authority)
 * Or High angle (viewer may get a sense of being in charge of being above &separate from the action)
 * Close-up (can show feelings/emotions and the view identifies with the item in the close-up. It also means they don’t directly know what is happening around the item in the close up
 * or Wide angle (long shot) Often used to show action, to put a character/item in a landscape/place
 * lighting and shadows – use to create emotion and feelings in the audience

A 13 minute documentary video. The video sets out to explain the art of storyboarding, using old Disney footage, as well as more up-to-date items, the video reviews the art of storyboarding as it is used in the story development and production of films. "A storyboard is a sequence of images and words drawn together on a page to form a plausible narrative. Storyboards are routinely used in the movie making business to 'preview' a movie before a single shot is taken. " media type="google" key="-2412052664775629371&hl=en&fs=true" width="400" height="326" and media type="youtube" key="-rFzlCDsyrg" width="420" height="315" and media type="youtube" key="B4ekzThzjj0" width="420" height="315" Some other sites I visited for information on storyboarding included:
 * __Resources and reference materials__**
 * ABCkids link for the [|**RollerMache site for storyboards**]**.** It is a great introduction for our students.
 * [|**Karen J. Lloyd’s storyboard blog**] She has worked on many well known projects and offers advice and templates.
 * The [|**Knight Digital Media Centre**] site that presents a web page storyboarding. It offers a good explanation of why and how to do a storyboard.
 * **YouthLearn** [|**An introduction to making movies**]. A website, designed for kids, about producing videos.
 * [|**Making Movie storyboards**] offers steps for teachers to address the creation of digital story in the classroom. Divided into five sections: Prep — Preparing for the lesson Steps — Conducting the lesson Extensions — Additional activities Community Connections — Real world actions for students after the completion of the lesson
 * Storyboard Depot - The elearning coach A post that gives you a collection of storyboard templates shared by members of the elearning community
 * Storyboard Generatorr (ACMI) An interactive (and comprehensive site) that offers a tool for students to learn about creating a storyboard, with many CC resources available for students to use when they build their own storyboard.
 * [|Storyboarder – Android Apps on Google Play] Free Android app for creating storyboards. The app allows you to pull pictures from your Android phone’s picture gallery, add captions to them, and arrange them into a storyboard. When you’ve completed your storyboard you can save it as a PDF and email it or save it to Dropbox.

Also used in the lesson were book trailers from the TeacherTube and YouTube and a variety of examples from the YouTube (eg videos of Hitchcock films or other such movies) to show some visual examples to students.

Setting the scene
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and a **Scrubs** homage to the above scene media type="youtube" key="s-rX5yEXrpE" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="c1CxfuKRVHo" height="344" width="425"
 * WOW** version