This is a storyboard in more of a finished fashion, explaining the flow of
a video experiment
for the display of a piece of jewelry.
For some time now I have been having an internal fight as to how to lay all that I have out for proper mental digestion. And what I have come up with is this: Start from the beginning.
As was seen in the beginning of this set of pages I posted a simple strip concerning a young boy who envisions himself to be a working manga artist, about to put the finishing touches on a panel he has just created... when reality bites! His teacher calls upon him. She then continues by asking him what great creation he has produced. The first series shows him (in his own understanding) to be much more mature and of college age... We see him still pictured older as his teacher presses upon him. But in the end we see him to be an elementary level student beginning art class... and his great picture is a stick-piggy!...
My purpose was to explain that in our own concept of ourselves we have only our vision of ourselves, we have to be able as artists to view with 'the eyes of others' as well...
To start this series of panels, even though rather simple requires two things: one is a story idea, and second is a STORYBOARD.
And here is an example of a 'quick-sketch' storyboard, done for a series named 'Bloodstar'. The idea here being a grab of the thoughts before they are set aside or forgotten!:
This is a blank template of the storyboard. You can 'eat all ya want, we'll make more' all you have to do is mouse over the image,
hit your menu button on your mouse. Select 'view image', a cursor with a "+" will appear click to enlarge and save to your choice of file.
You can then print the storyboard template off as many times as you need to.
The trick about the storyboard is that if you tape two of them together you can use the top boxes to describe the action and use the ones directly below to draw the idea of the scene. You will then get 18 panels of work (or 16 or 12 etc., etc. this way. Or you can 'script' a dialogue and 'keyframe' it to the storyboard by numbering or panel sequencing. This is really handy for making more room on the storyboard when there are more folks than just you doing the work...
Don't forget: use the menu key on your mouse to "view image" then hit the "+" to enlarge to full size, and then choose LANDSCAPE(!)for your page orientation...
I personally don't always use the storyboard method, except when the idea is going to need working out and is long or involves the necessity of capturing a specific idea... However, wisdom dictates that this is the way to work the idea, because you have an archive of the material and ideas and you can revisit the material and select or expand the idea incorporating it into new material later!
