Thursday 3 April 2014

The importance of story boards



There are many kinds of videos that are viewed and shared all over the world. There are many tutorial videos, online movies and many other personal videos too. When you are using a video for a business, there will be lots of demo videos. There are many videos that are used by businesses to introduce themselves and their products and services. There are many informative videos released by popular businesses to demonstrate how to use the products. There are many videos that explain the process of mantling and dismantling an equipment unit. Thus, the videos play a very important role in the world of business.
The story boards
Also, have you ever heard about the story board? These story boards are an important process into eh making of such videos. It is the process of planning out the story of the video. It helps you create a basic idea of what the video will contain. It will also help you to limit or ad more content to the video where needed. When you are in the process of making a video, there may be times when you get some new ideas. You may or may not inculpate those ideas into the actual video. But, to always think of the next shot on the sets of the video making will be very unproductive and waste the time, efforts and the energy of the whole crew and cast. It is quite useful and very important to plan the contents of the video beforehand. The story boards let you do it.
The uses
The story boards are a collection of a series of pictures, photos or illustrations. They stand in the same order as the final video. Also, they represent the video and give the viewers a picture of what will come next. The sequence of these story boards will be sequence of the actual vide too. Also, you can also thing of a story board as a script. A normal script will only contain text. But, when you are creating story boards, you are rewiring the scripts in the form of images. It will look like comic book version of your spit and serve a skeletal structure for the actual real video.
The benefits
These story boards are very useful. They help you get a clear picture of what you want to show up. Also, it helps you save time and lets you plan everything well ahead. Also, if you are using actors for your video and you are having a hard time explaining things to the actors, you can show them the story boards and they will understand it well. Also, you can use the story boards to shoe your client how the video will look when it is done. It can be used like a map and any changes that need to be included in the video can be edited in the story board.
There are many special trained artists if you want a professional story board.  This is where you will need storyboard artist to help you transfer your ideas to a better developed one. You can try to make some rough ones too.

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