Storyboards are used as a means of organising shots into the preferred sequence to allow for pre-visualisation. The process we use today was first developed by Walt Disney in the 1930s, and used to plan 'The Three Little Pigs'. 'Gone With The Wind' was one of the first films to have a fully completed storyboard for a motion picture.
They are intricate and detailed, and a crucial part of the planning and preparation before creation.
Storyboards help plan the budget, health and safety requirements and filming schedule. Without the use of one it would be difficult to prepare for the order of shots and layouts of events.
They are used in theatre to plan the scenes, animation uses 'animatics' for preparation, novels use then to help the authors visualisation and comics plan with storyboards.
Storyboards for films are created in a multiple step process. They can be created by hand drawing or digitally on a computer. The main characteristics of a storyboard are:
- Visualize the storytelling
- Focus the story and the timing in several key frames
- Define the technical parameters: description of the motion, the camera, the lightening, etc.
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