Storyboards

 

 http://www.thestoryboardartist.com/Site/Bikes.html
We have been looking at storyboards in the Silent Movie brief to start visualising our ideas before we put them onto After Effects. I have looked into already existing storyboards and seen how different people approach it. In this storyboard its drawn in vertical collum showing the story one frame below another, they also don't stick to the restrictions of the frame, they show how things move in and out of the frame and different perspectives.

http://www.sevensinsboards.com/storyboards/

This storyboard is from The Simpsons, this is like the storyboards that we have been doing for our animations, it shows the key frames of the scene so the animators know what is going to happen without having to draw out every single movement of the animations.

http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/
This is a really simple storyboard, showing you don't need to draw all the deatils in, also long as its clear what is going on it's alright to write annotations along side the frames.

 

http://www.ticktheboxproductions.co.uk/Multimedia/storyboards.htm

This is a much more indepth storyboard, but it still has annotations under each frame, it also has arrows to show direction of movement within the animation.

http://hardboiledronin.blogspot.com/2009/07/flash-video-game-storyboards-part-1.html
We have to use black, white and one other colour in our animations so I have found a storyboarder who uses colour, it is good to use colour in the storyboarding stage so when you come to putting it into after effects all these decisions have already been made so it will save time.