Telling a visual story

Michigan State University

How to: Storyboard

How-To: Storyboarding - Created by Lauren Lahrman

Storyboarding Activity

Develop the scenes by deciding how much text should be in a scene.

Then add the visual elements required to tell the story Consider establishing shots Point of view

Storyboarding Scenario

“Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in theforest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered,she walked right in.At the table in the kitchen there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry.She tasted the porridge from the first bowl.‘This porridge is too hot!” she exclaimed.So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl.‘This porridge is too cold!” she shrieked.Finally, she tasted the last bowl of porridge.‘Ahh, this porridge is just right,’ she said happily and she ate it all up.

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Scene 1 – Goldielocks

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks

Scene 2 – House

She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered,she walked right in.

Flickr by CarolineCCBY2.0

Scene 3 – Hot

At the table in the kitchen there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry.She tasted the porridge from the first bowl.‘This porridge is too hot!” she exclaimed.

Scene 4 – Cold

So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl.‘This porridge is too cold!” she shrieked.

Scene 5 – Just Right

Finally, she tasted the last bowl of porridge.‘Ahh, this porridge is just right,’ she said happily and she ate it all up.

Finding the right images

Tomorrow may never come again, so take all pictures and video footage you can when you are in the field. Look at the environment, decide what does

your audience need to know to understand your story.

Use creative commons licensed pictures to provide imagery for the parts of story that you don’t have images for.

Understanding Creative Commons licensing

Wanna Work Together? by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. https://youtu.be/P3rksT1q4eg

Finding Creative Commons Content

Photos http://search.creeatativecommons.org/ Conduct image search in Google and Flickr Returns CC licensed images

Video Use the Vimeo and Youtube options on

http://search.creativecommons.org/ Download CC licensed video files to edit

http://www.clipconverter.cc/