WHY DO WE USE A STORYBOARD?
To communicate ideas to: producers, production team, directors, actors, builders etc.
It helps you as a designer, the worker, to visualize the narrative and consequently brings questions & queries to the surface which help you to make decisions.
WHAT IS A STORYBOARD?
A series of images describing a performance over time as the audience experience it. Better to acknowledge the space around what's happening. Costume can be shown, as well as lighting ideas.
It is what the audience sees, moment by moment (don't ignore where they sit).
Important to note where the audience are and what they see, their point of view should be how a storyboard is shown.
WHAT FORMAT CAN YOU USE?
There are really no rules for creating a storyboard as it is about using what best suits the project and your style (not aerial view).
Any medium (eg. Drawn models, mixed media etc.) As few or as many images as you like (as long as more than one- is a series).
Any size (just be practical)
Must be selective, cannot show every moment of a performance (choose moments which best convey what happens).
Can be accompanied by text ( details of your choice but not to overdescriptive instead of visualizing).
TIPS & NOTES.
Pick one audience member's experience, move through performace as they would view it.
Helps to go into actual space, draw or take photos.
Can simply draw form head at the beginning liberating rather than being precise.
At the beginning visual thinking and communicating are more important than quality of drawing, for final assessments (more finesse & refinement is expected and necessary).
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