This slide share supports the NZTA Education Competition (2012) for years 1-8 ( Primary) check www.education.nzta.govt.nz for more information and www.twitter.com/nztaeducation for updates

1. The NZTA 2012 Education
competitions
Storyboard tips
for 2012

2. Videos and digital stories – Tips for teachers
Students can go further with video and digital storytelling if they
follow a process.
The 4 stages:
Development
Decide what the story is and what you will use to tell the story
Pre-production.
Choose locations, create a storyboard and shooting schedule
Production of storyboard
Make Storyboard with photos or pics and/or animations and/or ppts
etc
Pre-pare for Post-production.
Review edit and add directions sounds and ideas about music to
your entry

3. Storyboard tips
Plan out your digital story
•A storyboard helps you
generate ideas and see what
works
•Storyboards look like a
comic strip and can be
drawn on paper or with a
still camera or a computer
•Scenes may follow the
formula of anticipation,
action and reaction
•Storyboards help students A storyboard helps you
plan the pace of new generate ideas and test
information so the audience what ideas work for your
won't get confused story

4. Storyboard tips
You can include:
•Drawings indicating where
actors will be placed (try the
rule of thirds)
•Actors’ movements
•The duration and type of shot
(e.g. long shot, medium shot
or close up)

5. Storyboard tips
You can include:
•Placement and movement of
cameras
•Lighting requirements
•Dialogue
•Background music and sounds
A storyboard helps you
generate ideas and test
what ideas work for your
story

6. Videos and digital stories – Tips for teachers
Development
Pre-production
Development can be a very creative time.
Students will choose a genre, and write a script.
Suggest that your students ask each other:
•Who is the target audience?
•What are you trying to do – persuade, inform, entertain?
•What is the main point of your story? What information is important
to be included?
•Where will the story be told?
•What will happen in the beginning, middle and end?

7. Development
Pre-production
Decide if you will use moving images
(video), still photographs or drawings,
animation or a combination for the
final production.
If you don’t have access to a video
camera, other devices can capture
video.
These include: digital still, mobile
phones, computer cameras.
Finding moving and still images
online. Often free, but do read http://education.nzta.govt.nz/
licensing requirements competitions/the-nzta-primary-
years-competition
Sound and music. Best created by you

8. More pre-production tips
Getting students into different roles helps achieve the end product.
•Writers finalise script and storyboard
•Location managers find locations
•Gather Ideas for props and costuming
•Actors or animation?
•Directors decide on
how each scene will look

9. More pre-production tips
With your storyboard in hand, break your movie down
into a shooting schedule.
The shooting schedule lists all the scenes or images
in the order you will shoot them.
Shots can be grouped by the:
•Same location
•Same props or costuming
•Same characters
•Same time of day
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10. Check the terms and conditions online here
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions/the-nzta-primary-
years-competition
Enter by 27 July
2012 schools
Winning schools
will be notified
by 10 August
2012.