Story Boarding

This past Thursday our group got a lot of work done. Right off the bat we split into 3 groups. One group was sorting through hard copy pictures, choosing ones that we could use for B-Roll, another group was searching through the PAC computer systems for digital photographs, and a group member and I were story boarding the documentary.

The storyboarding started after I found a picture of the D’Angelos and Andre Watts, a pianist who played on opening night. A few weeks ago Earleen Glaser, the school library archivist, was telling my group a story about opening night.

It is opening night, and the audience members are excited for the first performance of the PAC. The curtains open and there is Andre Watts dead center on the stage with his custom piano, delivered here from Pittsburgh, Pa, earlier that day. Watts waits until the applause quiets down, and then he presses his fingers down on the keys. Nothing happens. He plays a little more and there is absolutely no noise coming from the piano. Opening night of a brand new Performing Arts Center and the piano breaks right on stage. Luckily the Performing Arts Center had it’s own piano backstage and ready. Stage crew brought out the other piano, and Andre Watts got on with the show.

What a great little story to have to open the documentary. It fits right in with the 3 part chronological method, it’s interesting, it’s funny and best of all there are 2 great pictures of Watts, the D’Angelos and Dr. Garvey, the former college President to scan for the opening B-Roll.

So after seeing the pictures and thinking out the first part of the documentary, I immediately grabbed a pencil and a notebook and started to storyboard.

For the storyboard I used a Two Column format. In the first column is the video that will be shown and in the second column is the audio that will be heard.



Here is my the first page of my storyboard. Originally only the copy in my notebook had actual pictures in the video column but for this, I decided to add pictures from Google images to help you get an idea of what it should look like. Below is the first page of the storyboard I have on my computer, without any actual pictures, just words to describe what will be in the video column.



CLICK HERE TO PRINT AN EASY TO USE TWO COLUMN STORYBOARD TEMPLATE

Within no time we had filled a few pages with pictures and audio.

At the end of the workday I typed up what I had of the storyboard and sent it to all of my group mates and now we have a very clear direction to steer towards during these final weeks. Unfortunately, I did not finish the storyboard yet, but I have gotten to the middle of the present section and so far everybody seems to be pleased with it.