Storybook+Blackboard= StoryBoard

Hmmmm what is a storyboard. I have read a lot of storybooks when I was in school and have seen my teacher writing about them on the blackboard but when did they both combine? Let me think what can be a storyboard. What the name suggest me is that “it’s a board which contain a story in it.”

But let me Google it and find out that either I am right or not.

“A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.

A storyboard helps you:

• Define the parameters of a story within available resources and time
• Organize and focus a story
• Figure out what medium to use for each part of the story”

This social media has made the life of journalist easy as well as competitive as well because we so much to do to stay with the flow of time. We are always on are toes and ready to report and write and try all the new tools available for us.

So this new tool is fun to use but a cranky too at time if we don’t use it properly. Before you get started just a clear vision that what are you going write about and where are you going to capture the picture.  You should divide the story into a logical, nonlinear part such as:

• a lead or nut paragraph
• profiles of the main person
• the event or situation
• any process or how something works
• pros and cons
• the history of the event or situation
• other related issues raised by the story

Now a day we can easily get ideas from websites that how can we start out storyboard such as getting a template will be very useful for the beginners.

I think storyboards are a great help to understand the story in a better way because we have the pictures and the captions as well which make the ideas more vivid in our mind and it doesn’t let the audience get bored.

Especially with the youth who are so much addicted to their computers this is a good source to let them get to the news.