Story-Boarding / Shooting Board
A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The story-boarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

A film storyboard, commonly known as a shooting board, is essentially a series of frames, with drawings of the sequence of events in a film, similar to a comic book of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand. It helps film directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Besides this, storyboards also help estimate the cost of the overall production and saves time. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement. For fast-paced action scenes, monochrome line art might suffice. For slower-paced dramatic films with emphasis on lighting, color impressionist style art might be necessary.

 

In creating a motion picture with any degree of fidelity to a script, a storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. And in the case of interactive media, it is the layout and sequence in which the user or viewer sees the content or information. In the story-boarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film or interactive media project can be efficiently described either in picture or in additional text.

Story-Board / Shooting Board Components
1. Story Board Panel Or Frame

2. Story Board Panel Aspect Ratios / Frame Line
4:3 | 1.33
9:16 | 0.56 (Vertical Frame Aspect Ratio)
16:9 | 1.77
16.65:9 | 1.85 (Popular)
17:9 | 1.88
21.15:9 | 2.35 (Current Widescreen Cinema Standard)
21.51:9 | 2.39

2. Camera Shot Size / Height / Angle / Framing
MCU/Eye Level/Single

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Extreme Wide (EW) / Wide (W) / Long (Full Body) (L) / Medium Long (Knee & Above) (ML) / Medium (Waist & Above) (M) / Medium Closeup (Chest & Above) (MC) / Close Up (Neck & Face) (CU) / Full Closeup (Eyes Nose Mouth Chin) (FC) / Extreme Closeup ( eyes Only) (ECU) / Over The Shoulder (OTS) / Two Shot / POV

Dutch Angle / Top Angle / Low Angle / Bottom Angle / Show Down / Over The Shoulder

PAN / TILT / ZOOM / DOLLY / Crane / Boom / Steady-Cam

3. Character Movement Arrows

4. Lighting Notes