Distill your freewriting: what’s your question now? what’s the most interesting thing that you found out and that you intend to use? who will be your audience?
The answers to these questions should guide the decisions that you make below.
Beginning a Storyboard
Identify 4-5 scenes in your video—the indelible moments that you need to include to make your inquiry and argument clear to your audience. What is the purpose of this scene? What do effect do you intend for it to have on your viewer?
what important visual possibilities make up these moments (think of multiple ways of representing each of these and include one of each of the following: e.g., literal, synecdochal, metaphorical)
What additional text and audio resources can you include (text overlay, slide, diagetic or non-diagetic sound; voice over; music; effect). Where would they come? What would they add to the overall effect?
Responding to a Storyboard:
- What are the main ideas you see this film working with? (Is there an obvious and not-so-obvious subject?)
- Which images are most important/interesting and why?
- Look carefully at the purpose of the scenes and the scenes themselves. Is there a strong connection between the purpose and the scene described? Make at least one suggestion for a different way to achieve the purpose.
- Where do you have questions or need more information? Is there something missing (gaps or holes that the filmmaker might want to think about)? Locate a place (or places) where additional images/language/text would clarify the subjects of the film.
- Make one or two specific suggestions about how the filmmaker might make her film more: meaningful/visually interesting/suspenseful/attentive to her audience/personal/universal.
