- What is storyboarding? A sequence of pictures to communicate the desired general visual appearance
- To communicate ideas before production, in print, is a cost saving exercise
- It is essential to understand the flow and to check sequences work
- Idea generation
- Brainstorming, visual thinking
- Idea: working on post-it notes to easily re-arrange
- Can write captions
- Storyboards are not flip-book full animations, but key frames, significant points where things change
- As we are working digitally, we still need to take screenshots to explain work in crits
Task
For this workshop we brought in all the research we gathered about our two words chosen from the randomiser.
Task 1: Take 1 letter from your words; for each word, you need at least 5 visualisations of this word, using only the letterform in one frame. You can use arrows but no words.
I looked back over my research and tried to draw a visualisation of all of the definitions I found.
Task 2: Choose one word, and choose one letter from this word. Change the form/ dimension/ scale/ appearance/ visual quality and characteristics in five steps.
For this task I chose the 't' from stretch. I worked on some of the best initial ideas I had from the initial task. I found it useful to work on the steps it would take to get from the start to the end.
Task 3: Choose one word, and choose one letter from this word. The form needs to stay fixed, but you can change the position/ axis/ orientation/ movement.
For this task I chose the 'e' from expand. I found this one very difficult, so my ideas might not make a lot of sense.
Task 4: Choose one word, and choose one letter from this word. For this one you can change the form/ scale/ lateral or vertical position and spatial dimensions.
Do they work?
Go back and annotate your storyboards, use arrows and notes so that it makes sense to you. Edit them, think about how you can make them better. This is useful to see if your visualisations actually make sense when you go back to them.
My photos show my annotated storyboards.
