Storyboarding
Also known as: comic strip layouts, panel illustrations, sitemaps
Storyboarding is a structured planning process where students create a visual sequence of how a story/multimedia product will unfold. It:
- can be used by educators as a formative assessment strategy prior to the creation of a multimedia task
- assists students to make decisions about how things will look and behave in a multimedia product
- can be adapted to suit the product being created. For example, a website storyboard usually includes one panel for each page on the site, whereas for filmmaking, each panel usually represents a camera shot and includes details about what the camera will see and show.
ICT templates
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How to use with ICT
- Explore the many storyboarding templates readily available on Canva for Education to help you get started.
External resources
| Title | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Storyboarding by Richard Culatta | Storyboarding | Provides a history, context, and processes for storyboarding that aims to pre-visualise video, web-based training, or interactive media sequences. |
| What Is Storyboarding in web design? by Elizabeth Smith | What Is Storyboarding in web design? | This article unpacks the ways in which creative and technical professionals use storyboards, to streamline the design and development process. |
| eLearning Learning website | eLearning Learning website | Displays search results for Creative Commons Storyboards. |
| Storyboards category from Wikimedia Commons | Storyboards category from Wikimedia Commons | Thirty-seven storyboard graphic organisers shown as illustrations or images, displaying aspects of a sequence that is part of pre-visualising a story. |
| Storyboard depot (Storyboards for eLearning) on eLearning Coach website | Storyboard depot | Provides a variety of storyboard templates to download and use for projects. |
| Storyboarding in Education by Damian Gordon | Storyboarding in Education | A description of the use of storyboards in developing eLearning materials. |
| The Student Filmmaker – Module 4: Planning by Stem.T4L | The Student Filmmaker – Module 4: Planning | Explore the importance of storyboarding when planning content for filming and access supporting templates. |
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Professional learning
| Provider | Course name | Link | Description |
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| AITSL | Developing Storyboards | Watch the video | The video shows a teacher working with her year 7 students to develop storyboards. |
| Australian Centre for the Moving Image | Storyboards | Read the resource | 'Film it' is a collection of teaching and learning resources covering the process of creating a film. The storyboarding module can be used for introducing the concept to students. |