Online Workshop 4 – Pre-Production

Pre-Production – storyboarding and mood boards

Workshop 4 – Pre-Production – Storyboards and Mood BoardsDownload

Workshop 4 – Pre-Production – Storyboards and Mood BoardsDownload

Visual storytelling activities (slides 1 – 4)

  • exploring different camera shots and angles
  • collecting props for telling a story

Audio-visual storytelling activities on a short animation (slides 5 – 10)

  • play the animation without visuals first and then show the visuals
  • examine different camera shots and angles from the animation
  • decide where the camera is positioned in the shots

Activities using objects to tell stories (slides 11 – 14)

  • thinking about what stories an object can bring out
  • exploring an object from different angles and perspectives
  • taking still images of your object
  • talking about your object in two or more languages and filming

Storyboarding activities on theme of ‘Care, Community, Hope’ (slides 15 – 17)

  • use the template to create a storyboard using at least one of your objects
  • develop a short script for each frame in a language other than English
  • decide on camera shots and angles for each frame.

Creating a mood board and character back stories (slides 18 – 20)

  • create a mood board for your story to develop the visual style
  • create a back story for the characters in your digital story.