Storyboarding is a process of visually representing a concept or an idea. Storyboards are the blueprints for creating videos and assist graphic designers and developers to visualize a concept before they start implementing the same on complex designing and animation software.
Storyboards can be hand-drawn or electronically created. They look like a series from square frames with sketches and illustrations. They are written in such a manner that frame by frame, the story unfolds, and the concept comes to life. Along with the graphics these frames carry textual elements like narration, dialogues, and notes for the developers.
Storyboards are generally used as precursors to developing educational videos, explainer videos, concept videos, project videos, showcase reels, product demos, etc. They find multiple applications across education and entertainment industries. Due to their inexpensive nature, storyboards are also widely used for concept pitching, ideation, and brainstorming.
They also find application in sales and marketing activities like developing buyer personas and depicting consumer lifecycles. Storyboards can also be created for developing navigation structures and web architecture for a sizable website creation project.
Videos can open-up a world of exciting sand engaging opportunities for educators exploring interesting in-class pedagogies. Learners, across age-groups, prefer learning through videos. By weaving visual elements into the teaching plans, one can increase the applicability of the entire course material.
Storyboarding is an important early stage while developing e-learning content. Experienced instruction designers can convert textual concepts, video scripts, and theories into interesting storyboards. These can be eventually produced into animated videos, GIFs, interactive graphics, and other multimedia elements.
Today, digitally-driven companies are smartly weaving video content with online resources and even embedding them into learning apps to enhance its reach and to cater to the specific needs of on-demand learners.
When creating storyboards, it is easy to get carried away. Due to the creative nature of the exercise, writers often go overboard with their ideas and visualizations. Well, that doesn’t sound too bad. However, while developing storyboards, one must never lose sight of the subject matter, the target audience, and the purpose of the video.
The key to developing highly useful storyboards is to make them extremely comprehensive. Details, Details, Details – this is the mantra for success. Remember that as a storyboard developer, you are the link between the subject matter and the audience. The better the research, the more composite the detailing, the better the storyline, and the deeper the learning.
Good storyboard writers have opinions about the special effects (VFX, AFX), visuals (type of stock imagery to be used), etc., and provide appropriate references to bring their creations to life. A working knowledge of the basic features of the animation software will also come handy.
LexiConn brings to the table, the maturity and domain expertise to marry your subject matter with the most suitable mode of communication, character representations, and situations. This ability stems from our deep-rooted understanding of communication design and instruction design.
We have assisted several leading learnings solutions providers to develop smart, age-appropriate, syllabus-compliant, and technically-feasible storyboards, within extremely short turnaround times. We have the ability to manage large projects while maintaining strong quality control and editing benchmarks. Talk to us, for your storyboarding outsourcing needs.
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