Storyboard

The Fall field trip this year was to the local apple picking farm. All of the children got on the school bus and headed to the farm.

The farm was large but the kids were allowed to go off on their own and try to gather up as many apples as they could.  

Sarah found some good apples but as she was walking back she saw what she thought was the best apple. She couldn't figure out how to get it though because it was too high up.












Then she saw her teacher Mr. Thompson helping her classmate reach an apple. Sarah was thrilled she would be able to get to her apple and go home with the best apple she's ever seen.











Part 2

In the build of the city an explosion went off and the building began to suddenly collapse.

The rescue teams went to the scene immediately to assist people in evacuating.

People in range of the ash and smoke were given masks and escorted out of the rubble to a safer location.

As people came out of the ash filled streets a man began praying, hoping one of the figures would be his wife who worked in the building.








In creating the storyboard visuals I was trying to give the viewer a complete understanding of the story that took place using photos and some text. The storyboard is similar to a comic in many ways because of the separate images that the reader fills in information in their mind between screens. I was trying to find images that didn't create too large of a gap between subjects but was not repetitive either. In the first storyboard I chose the girl with the apple and created a story about apple picking. This was a lighter story that relied more on the text than in the second. While creating the second storyboard I was more selective in my images because I noticed in the first one, it would've been difficult to understand the story completely without the text. I picked images that were more of a step-by-step format than jumping to a complete new scene or situation. My "AHA" moment came when I was searching for the actual images to use. I had the basic thought of what I wanted but when it came to picking a single image, I realized that little details are important. The image has to best represent the idea I was trying to get across, while leaving the least amount of room for the viewer to be confused. I also realized how powerful storyboards can be. The photos and short descriptions leave space for the viewer to connect and use their imagination. If it were a film or book, the viewer would be told more directly what to think. The text seems to reduce the cognitive load but the main story should still be understood by looking at just the images. In storyboards audiences can look at the same one and get the same main idea but still have their own views to what took place. The first storyboard uses a scene-to-scene transition. Each frame brings the viewer to the next scene in the story. The second storyboard goes from action-to-action. Each frame brings the viewer to the resulting action of the frame before it.