storyboards...

Today in media we worked in small groups and began to create a storyboard for our continuity excercise. I learnt that a storyboard is a graphical representation of camera shots for a film sequence. After the script for the film has been written the next step is to draw up the storyboard, the storyboard tells the story of the film panel by panel. A storyboard is created to give the director something to follow when filming begins. We also learnt that a storyboard should have information about which characters are in the frame, whether or not there is any dialogue, how long each shot should be, camera shots and whether or not there is any music or sound. As a class we also looked at an example of a storyboard called "P is for Psycho" so that we could have something to help us with the process of creating our storyboards.