2. WHERE DID IT ALL
BEGIN?
The first person thought to have used storyboards is
Leonardo Divinci. However, in the late 1920’s the
popularisation of animated pictures helped make the use of
the storyboard a mandatory exercise in modern cinema.
These were often hand drawn and existing on paper with no
real detail. Walt Disney and his artists reinvented the use of
the storyboard in 1929 in the process of making the moving
picture ‘Steamboat Willie’, the first animated cartoon feature.
In the 1940’s it then became a part of live action recordings.
Some directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen would
extensively storyboard and take it into pitches for new ideas
as it gave the financers an idea on exactly what their
investments would produce.
3. WHERE IS
STORYBOARDING NOW?
Animating directors are still the main users of extensive
storyboards due to the amount of detail now used in
animated scenes with technological advancements.
Storyboards can now be computerised and using digital
sketches. However, storyboarding now exists in more than
just the film industry. Marketing companies, fashion
organisation and other business related companies now use
storyboards for their onscreen and online promotion
materials. Due to the communication revolution many
companies have now taken to the internet as their primary
source of marketing as this is a more accessible and cheap
platform to promote their products on. However, even this
requires planning and therefore companies will often be
pitched a marketing teams ideas for promotion whether this
be online or onscreen.
4. WHERE WILL
STORYBOARDING GO?
Along with technology their will be advancements in the
presentation of storyboards however I think it is too vital a
planning procedure that many organisations will never fully
eliminate. A storyboard acts as a visual flow chart of events
that will show from start to finish what a director intends to
create on camera. Therefore, it would be difficult for this to
be shown by other methods.
6. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages Disadvantages
• Create a clear representation of
the aim of your idea or design
• They acts a visual design of the
way you will use camera
movement to tell a story.
• It would be easy to present/pitch
the idea as instead of reading a
synopsis you can speak the
investor or financing team through
the idea.
• Can often leave you fixed to one
structure
• It is often difficult to storyboard all
possibilities of camera work and
therefore can not always have the
full effect,
