How to Create a Storyboard

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Assignment Part 3
By Dr. Cyndi Orsburn
 The Seven Elements of Digital
Storytelling
• 1. Point of View What is the main point of the story and what is the
perspective of the author?
• 2. A Dramatic Question A key question that keeps the viewer's
attention and will be answered by the end of the story.
• 3. Emotional Content Serious issues that come alive in a personal and
powerful way and connects the story to the audience.
• 4. The Gift of Your Voice A way to personalize the story to help the
audience understand the context.
• 5. The Power of the Soundtrack Music or other sounds that support and
embellish the storyline.
• 6. Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without
overloading the viewer.
• 7. Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.

The original site for this information is

http://atr.k12.hi.us/tutorials/tutorials/digstory/elements.htm
 Developing your Digital Story
The Five Steps of developing a Story:
1. Pre-writing: brainstorming, collecting images,
researching, outlining, and storyboarding
This is an address for free story mapping software.
http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html
2. Drafting: creating a script and developing form
3. Revising: modifying images and organization
4. Editing: timing, images, and narration
5. Publishing: the final product
 A Simple plan for a storyboard.
• A storyboard is simply a place to map out a story.
• Take a stack of index cards and place one card under each picture
on your desk.
• Write down the main words that you'll be reading aloud as the
image appears in the story.
• Use no more than 15 images for two minutes of video. Four to six
seconds is the ideal time for an image to appear on-screen.
• If you get stalled writing your script, try jotting down thoughts on
an index card and let the cards serve as your script. Just write one
true thing, and the rest of the words will flow.
• You'll be surprised by how few images are needed to convey a story.
The source for this material is
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/archives/page10
096.cfm
 What is a story board ?
• A storyboard is a tool to help you plan the pictures and
script for a movie or digital story.
• It contains sketches or pictures of what will be seen on
the screen in each scene.
• The script, narration, or other information about each
scene is also included on each frame.
• Let’s watch aslide show about how to do
storyboarding. (click on link to resources to view
presentation)
• http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/informationliteracy/12to
14/tell/Storyboarding/resources/genericcontent_tcm4
268053.asp
 What does a storyboard contain?
• Storyboards are visual representations that aid in
the the creation process of digital storytelling.
• Storyboards layout images in sequential order to
create the the flow of the production.
• They can also include technical aspects and
explanations of design.
• Each project is unique and varies in its needs;
specific requirements should be altered.
• The following is suggested content: a brief
description, comments, audio, transition and an
estimate of length.
 A Storyboard Example
• Now let’s look at an example of a storyboard
• http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/v_storyboa
rd.pdf
 How to make a storyboard
Here are some samples of Here is a sample form to
storyboards to look at. complete.
http://accad.osu.edu/womena http://www.timeforkids.com/T
ndtech/Storyboard%20Reso FK/media/teachers/pdfs/20
urce/ 02F/021108NSw1.pdf
Sample story board form 1
Sample story board form 2
Sample story board form 3
Sample story board form 4
This is a sample page from a commercial
storyboard program for children.
Follow these steps:
1. Pick scene from
timeline.
2. Fill in title and
description.
3. Drag screen options
into place.
4. Repeat until all steps
are done.
5. Then do next scene.
Story boarding can also be done in
Word
Here are the directions and a sample story
board to preview.
http://flatclassroom09-1.flat
classroomproject.org/file/view/Tutorial_Story
board.pdf