Original Storyboards

When thinking about it, making storyboards seemed like a cake walk for me. Just think of several different ideas I could put into three, four, and five frames and I’m set. Little did I know, this would turn into an interesting process that actually took me so much time to do. When coming up with an idea for a simple storyboard, I wanted to show something that seemed out of the ordinary and surprise the audience in a way they wouldn’t know. Just coming up with ideas is simple thanks to my creative thinking cap, but putting those ideas on paper was admittedly hard to do.

For my three frame storyboard, a shadow is cast over and a black humanoid figure rises from it. It’s a simple story and can be told with more frames but that’s about as simple as I can make it.

For my four frame storyboard, an alien flies off to another planet to gather information in order to conduct research for his home planet. While it is something done before, not many people would think to see what the aliens do when they find a planet they’ve never heard of before.

And for my five frame storyboard, it’s just a simple “guy trying to kick a soccer ball” kind of story. Reasons as to why I made that one is because I got lazy and I wanted to do something quick since it took me until before class to even make the storyboard.

So barring the “storyboard block” I seem to have with this, it was very interesting to just come up with ideas from scratch and draw them on paper.