A storyboard is a planning tool that shows the sequence of of events that you wish to produce in your video along with the accompanied narration and or visuals.

To create a a simple storyboard from source files, we use the following template:

Visual	Narration/Text

An example of a storyboard showing four events using this template is shown below

Storyboards can become very complex depending on the nature of the video being produced. An example of a single event for an animated movie is shown below:

One can use the storyboard as tool in isolation to create videos, but it worth considering your purpose and goals of your video by creating a video brief.

See the next post in this series: The Video Brief – Professional Video Creation (Part 2)

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