Making the storyboards

Our group went to the media rooms to work on the storyboards. We used the finished timeline to help with each of the picture squares.

A storyboard is a graphical representation of the camera shots in a sequence which are connected together to create a 'narrative flow'. It is similar in appearance to a comic strip.
A storyboard serves the same purpose in film making as an outline does in written projects. It enables the director to visualise the flow of camera shots and sets that they want to have appear.

'In a production meeting, a picture really is worth a thousand word. You can script a sequence in words as clearly as you like, and there will always be some misunderstanding. But if you use storyboards, it's so much easier to communicate your visual and dramatic ideas'. 

Matthew Jones. Television script  editor, Red Productions.

Before shooting- At this stage of making music videos the director and the production designer will discuss how to achieve the right look and feel of the film by planning the sets and costumes. A storyboard artist will be brought in to draw up the director's rough storyboards and add any additional details and creating a detailed version with action, camera and lighting directions. 

A director will discuss these detailed storyboards with the director of photography (DOP) whose job it is to achieve the look of the film on the screen. Together they will talk through each specific shot and discuss composition of the scene, camera, placements, camera movements, lighting and equipment needed for each shot. 

The storyboard is an important piece of communication between the members of the film crew as it provides a common outline which everyone.

This is an example of a storyboard: