Thursday, 25 February 2016

Storyboard Template

I am in need of a brand new storyboard template for the pilot. The college ones are utterly terrible and the ones on Google images are no better. I think the best thing to do is look at and develop an understanding towards the more professional storyboard templates. It's actually a really important thing to consider during the storyboarding process, since I want this to have really good quality cinematography.
Adventure Time, being a board-driven series, is a great example of how to design a storyboard template. It has a nice 16:9 aspect ratio, with a dotted opaque guideline showing the 4:43 ratio. It also has a little space that shows where the CN logo would be on the bottom-right. It's nicely laid out so that it's straight forward and has enough space to either write or draw actions, and a space for timing, which is quite vague but depending on the context of the scene being planned can actually be self-explanatory. On top of that, the panels themselves are big enough to establish the shots effectively, and the dotted lines give the artist an idea of where to place the characters within the frame. The information around the panels is simple and easy to follow. It's also easy to read a printed version, because it's designed for the landscape layout, which perfectly enables you to read it from left-to-right, instead of up-to-down.

There's really no other series with a better template that I can think of, to be honest. I don't see why everyone wouldn't simply just copy this template, instead of trying something different. 

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