Monday, March 7, 2011

Storyboarding--or not?

I recently heard a discussion about storyboarding, as a means of organizing your short story or novel, and I got excited. I love storyboards, mostly because I'm a visual learner and when something is presented to me in a visual way, I usually retain it more completely than I would otherwise. The thing is, I actually haven't done a lot of storyboading, as such. I'm more of an outliner, myself. So, what I think of as "storyboards" are probably a lot more like timelines. It's still visual, but not pictorial. Does it still count?

You've all seen the plot structure formula, I'm sure...
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Well, my storyboards outlines storyboards are kinda like that, only I put in a whole lot more detail. Sometimes, it's just notes attached to the main story/event line with arrows and scribbly things. It looks more like...



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This. Ha.
Actually, this picture really cracks me up. I borrowed it from Mike Flacy's consumer electronics and social media blog. It's a timeline of the show Lost. Supposedly.

So yeah, for me, outlining is synonymous with storyboarding. I'm co-opting the term "storyboard," 'cause it sounds cool, and there is that visual kind of thing going on.

Do you storyboard? What do your's look like?

1 comment:

  1. I so tried to story board. I started to. I got lost in all of it. I mapped out the main story line then argued with myself as to if the sub plots should be represented on the story board. I settled the argument by making a second, third and forth story board for all of the side stories. Then I struggled with how they fit together. It is a lot like putting together a puzzle with out a picture to look at.

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