Story Board

Making a story board is the starting point of creating a story board, it enables us to pieces together all of our ideas and put them in a specific order. It helps us understand our intended message as well as what we are trying to show. By creating a script or storyboard it ensures we as well as the audience understand our intent.  Whilst making our storyboard it is vital we keep in mind the 5 W's - Who, What, When, Where and Why as this will help us fill in the main body of the story. In addition we must also keep in mind other elements such as the protagonist, antagonist, plot, dialogue, setting and point of view etc.

  By creating a storyboard it makes it easier for us to plan out the whole concept of our plot. It allows us to pre-visualise each shot, each line of dialogue, each beat of soundtrack and imagine other elements such as editing, background and special effects. There are many advantages when it comes to making a story board such as:

- Programming skills are not required

- It is rather vague meaning the audience will pose questions

- It is a quick way to sketch ideas

- It does not require artistic skills

- It helps the audience pre-visualise

- It allows us to see certain elements that are missing

In my opinion making a storyboard before filming is very beneficial as it is something we are able to refer back to. It isn't very time consuming and will prevent disagreements within the group as it allows us to combine all of our ideas into one and see what fits best. It is also easy to edit a storyboard whether it means taking parts out or adding them in. My group and I have created a rough story board with the vital information such as the non/diegetic music, actions, transitions etc along the side. Creating it wasn't particularly hard yet we had to ensure we added all of the information necessary. We found that as we were creating it we were developing our ideas and writing them down quickly before we forgot them, therefore we will need to do a neat, detailed version of our storyboard in order for us to understand it. Once we have done this I will then upload a picture of the final version.