Storyboarding 201

As a storyboard artist you must be proficient in taking another’s story and developing it so it fits within the creator’s vision. You will need to work rough and loose and yet still create strong appealing drawings.

This next level of storyboarding class assumes that you have taken the basics of storyboarding and that the student is familiar with all the camera shots , this will free you to really express yourself by creating your own characters and environments.

The first sessions will include an in depth explanation of the assignment, later lessons will give you only the story for you to research and come up with your own unique storyboards.

This class will focus on the following points.

• You will learn to caricature actual events in order to keep it appealing and entertaining.
• Researching the resource material.
• Using all the camera angles and interesting staging shots
• The use of simple value for emotional impact
• Written stories such as Asope’s fables that must be interpreted as visual storytelling