Creating a Storyboard
1. What is
a storyboard?
Planning is key! Storyboards are graphic organizers which show
the scenes in a multimedia project in a rough drawing form. A storyboard will
help you visualize how the content chunks relate to each other and will help to
shape the direction of your efforts as you create your project. With a
storyboard, you are able to map out your original ideas for communication to
your viewers. Evaluating the storyboard will allow you to make adjustments
during the early formative stage while revisions are still quite simple to do.
2. How to
create your storyboard:
A. Write down key points, ideas, and
concepts under consecutive storyboard frames (see attached).
B. Your storyboard should in essence
be a type of map, outlining all the major steps needed to complete the learning
objective(s) for that lesson.[1]
C. Make rough sketches of visuals for
each frame. Don’t worry about polish at this point; you just want the idea of
the visual clearly portrayed.
D. Read your presentation while
looking at the storyboard and complete the storyboard checklist:
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Does
my visual clearly display one key idea from my presentation?
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Is
my aid as visually simple as I can make it?
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Can
my audience understand my visual completely in less than 30 seconds?
E. You can create your storyboard on
paper or various software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Inspiration
3.
Examples of storyboards
A. Paper
B. Word or PowerPoint (using the
organizational chart or flowchart)
C. Inspiration
Example of a paper storyboard template
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Example of a Biology storyboard using
PowerPoint
Quick steps in using Powerpoint to create a storyboard:
- Once you have opened powerpoint,
select
- Select INSERT>PICTURE>ORGANIZATION
CHART.
- An organizational chart similar to the one
above will appear on the screen.
- Begin my clicking any one of the bubbles to
start your storyboard.
- You may add more bubbles by selecting INSERT
SHAPE and choosing the type you want from the Organization Chart Toolbar.
Example of Digital Video Storyboard
using PowerPoint
Example of storyboard using Inspiration
Quick steps in using
Inspiration to create your storyboard:
1. Familiarize yourself with the menu bar:
Outline: This option allows the user to see
the concept map in an outline form.
Rapid
Fire: This option
allows the user to quickly add ideas without any specific direction or order.
This is most often used with brainstorming.
Create: The Create option allows the user
to add ideas horizontally, vertically or at angles to the main idea.
Link: This option allows the user to
change the appearance of the line that connect one idea to another.
Arrange: This option allows the user to
place the main idea and supporting ideas in a specific diagram format.
Note: This option allows the user to add
a comment for further explanation to the map. It is visible in the Outline view
of the map.
Hyperlink: This option allows the user to add
a hyperlink to sites on the World Wide Web.
Spell: This option allows the user to do
a spell check on all entries in the map.
Help: The help menu provides answers to
basic Frequently Asked Questions for users of Inspiration.[2]
- To begin, select FILE>NEW
from the menu bar. A new workspace will appear with a bubble entitled Main
Idea. Click on the Main Idea bubble. Double click on the words Main Idea
to select them and overwrite with your own text.
- To add more bubbles to the
current bubble, select the RAPID FIRE icon from the menu bar. This will
allow you to add more ideas to your storyboard. You can continue to add
more bubbles by selecting RAPID FIRE. Note: You may also use the other
tools available on the menu bar to add more bubbles.
- Once you have completed your
storyboard, you can rearrange the position of the bubbles by clicking and
holding on the lines connecting the bubbles and drag them to the desired
position.
- You can now save your
storyboard by selecting FILE>SAVE
OPTIONS:
1. To export
your storyboard to another software such as PowerPoint, select the OUTLINE icon
from the menu bar. An EXPORT window pops up and allows you to choose which
program to export your storyboard. Check the box next to MS POWERPOINT RTF and
select SAVE.
2. You can
now open Microsoft PowerPoint, open the saved file and view your storyboard and
begin creating a presentation.
Example of storyboard using Inspiration continued…
