Storyboarding

 What a storyboard's purpose and what is it used for?

A storyboard is a planning device used by most directors in the film and media industry. Preparing a storyboard helps them think through the moving image in their head and then capture it on paper with camera shots, angles, and transitions. It allows directors to think in advance about how they want the narrative to develop and consider the technical and audio codes they will use to convey it.

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What does a storyboard look like?

The images show each frame of the film and then the director can help produce it so all these frames connect to each other when filming, and the camera shots is shown through the arrows; the arrows on the storyboard show where the camera needs to be going so in the first frame of the storyboard is going backwards with the person and going up slightly on a close up frame but it it's all done in 1 shot as the into of the story board and when the arrow is pointed right or left it pans in that direction, where is the arrow is pointed up or down, it means the camera is tilting up and down. here are the definitions of even more camera arrows:

These arrows depends as it helps the director think of where to pan the camera and without them then the film wouldn't make sense in production. For example: if there wasn't an arrow to tilt up whilst following the guy, the director could of mistook that for it to pan right then the camera shot wouldn't make sense.

    The size and type of shot of the storyboard also depends, these can be a mid shot, long shot or close up shot and these help the audience see what is going on so for a battle, it would be usually on a long shot so that the audience can see what's happening. An example of a long shot could be something such as the Avengers: Endgame battle: 

You tend to have lots of long and mid shots in battles shown in the above storyboard and that gives a better understanding of the scene. Most storyboards contain mostly images and only text appears in the image when dialogue is being said or helps with the emotion of the character in the storyboard such as a question mark will mean the character is confused; the storyboard has to show the order of the scene to keep continuity and then the director can add any flashbacks etc.