Introduction to Storyboard and Conclusion:
According to Wikipedia, “a film storyboard” is “basically a huge cartoon of the film or some segment of the film made ahead of time to help film directors, cinematographers, and television commercial advertising clients understand the sequences and detect any problems before they occur.” Aside from that, storyboards assist estimate the whole production cost and save time. The use of arrows or directions to indicate movement is common in storyboards.
You know it’ll be a long or expensive project whether you’re making a video, a TV commercial, a film, or even a theatre performance. It will also necessitate a concerted creative endeavor, during which original intentions are likely to shift drastically. A storyboard is useful since it is nothing more than a collection of crude sketches on paper. It walks us through what this version of the plan (of numerous versions) states will happen, scene by scene, or even shot by shot. Storyboards frequently incorporate essential image conceptions, scenery or landscape concepts, or set design thoughts, as well as pieces of dialogue for storyline ‘turning moments or partial dialogue cores for scenes. These then get fleshed out, perhaps leading through a stage where there are dozens of plot index cards, as shown in the header photo for this article. (This shows Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, hard at work on a movie screenplay, being built up from many index cards. He brilliantly explains his practice here).
Storyboarding works because
- it allows everyone involved in a project to mentally run, rerun, and troubleshoot each scene or viewpoint from their point of concern, allowing them to see, or picture in miniature, a finished result well in advance.
- Storyboarding is a type of low-cost prototyping that helps to make what will happen more concrete. It aims to elicit crucial reactions and ideas to a very expensive product before committing a large number of scarce resources (and money) to realizing the vision at scale.
- A storyboard can assist create resources and commitment from external sources since concepts are fleshed out and made real in an accessible manner. Raising funds from investors, or obtaining client approval in advertising, are crucial steps before a project can move further.
- Planning ahead in this way can also help a lot with estimating how much time and money it will need to implement ideas.
- In businesses where precise details and correct form of application of ideas are important, a storyboard can aid in the creative development of tough materials. In some cases (such as commercials or music videos), the storyboard may be the only ’shooting script’ available prior to filming. In longer films, it frequently transforms into a contingent screenplay, that is itself often revised.
The storyboard (and later the script) creates a precise, shared vision that many diverse actors in complicated production teams — authors, directors, performers, camera people, various designers, and technicians — can share early on. A storyboard gets everyone on the same page right away, in a ‘blow by blow’ format that can be readily changed and reformulated. It can also help keep people there as the project matures, as long as it expands and adapts.
CONCLUSION
In research, visualizing your eventual product is very helpful, and storyboarding can aid here as well. Scientists and scholars will gain from the following:
Instead of leaving unresolved questions dangling in the ‘write up,’ triggering a collection of thoughts early enough to assist shape the research process. One paragraph often leads to another, perhaps a probable counterargument, which leads to a rebuttal argument. Before the first paragraph is written, none of this is apparent. Similarly, scrutinizing a completed chart or table for patterns (or possible interpretations) usually always exposes the necessity for another chart or table.
Standing back from what you’re doing and re-envisioning it are both easier if you can manage your materials in a compressed or synoptic form, viewing it at varied degrees of focus and detail — not just nose up against the nitty-gritty of text or outcomes, as we usually do.
Confronting contradictions. In our inner thoughts, or even in spoken expositions and dialogues, we all have a great innate ability to hold opposing ideas or arguments. Early on, writing out arguments or otherwise visualizing outputs or deliverables in tangible ways can assist in identifying and counteracting conflicting commitments and arguments. Putting thoughts on paper or on screen compels you to confront flaws, sharpen arguments to avoid problems, or come up with counterarguments or alternative solutions for things that appear to clash.
Encourage researchers to complete known needs as soon as possible to avoid procrastination. If you know it will take two paragraphs to explain Concept A, or that a sub-section will need to discuss Method X in y number of paragraphs, or that a data table will be required on Aspect G, why not write it now, rather than in a rush at the end or against a deadline?
Early on, focusing on a research narrative. A storyboard must include important, relevant elements, but it also focuses on conveying broad messages in an understandable manner.
A storyboard for a research project, article, or PhD chapter keeps your focus on the research’s added value, the major results and conclusions, and the ‘bottom line’ argument.
Filling in the otherwise significant gap between initial plans and the first draught of the report, article, or chapter. Storyboarding is the process of visualizing research. ‘What would I find out or end up arguing about if everything went as smoothly as it could (given initial expectations)?’ it asks. ‘What if things went “badly” in the sense that they deviated significantly from initial expectations?’ or demonstrating that I had no idea what was going on? or is it just that things are more complicated than I thought? What would be the argument then?’ ‘Are there any intermediate outputs, discoveries, or outcomes that I can be certain of? Or anything that can provide me with some sort of “insurance,” something to “lay off” against the biggest risks of things going wrong?’
References & Sources:
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
Book — Developing as a Writer
https://nancikelham.blogspot.com/2016/10/storyboard-research.html