Beat-Boards: Beat-boards are distinct from storyboards. It represents a series of single drawings that depict a scene of the movie. It is similar to a children’s book illustration wherein a single picture tells a complex story. It primarily serves as a guide for a director to pitch his story to the people involved in the making of the film. Beat-boards can also be a form of art direction in which the shot is staged and given a colour ambience with simple dabs and not necessarily detailed sketching.
Storyboards: The idea of storyboarding was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s. Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard (Christopher Finch, The Art of Walt Disney, Abrams, 1973). The first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short Three Little Pigs (The Story of Walt Disney, Henry Holt, 1956). According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards (1999, Hyperion Press), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like “story sketches” created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie.
TASK:
Before starting this activity please have your story beats from the last activity
Part 1 – Using your story from the previous activity, further develop a short story in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
• Brainstorm a story based on the theme of:
“some everyday happening becomes out of this world”
• Develop a story plan on the provided theme, meeting the criteria presented in class last week (see below).
• Sketch out preliminary/quick visual plans for each minor beat of the story
• Pitch quick sketches/beat boards to friends and get feedback
Part 2 – Colour Palette Study
• Create a thorough coloured palette for your beat board presentation
• Annotate and title the colours by characters, worlds, scenes, etc.
• See the Camellia project (link below)
• Post to your Story and World Building Behance Portfolio
Part 3 – Beat-Board
• Create a coloured Beat-Board presentation using Google Slides and or Video format.
• Apply colour palette to Beat-boards
• No arrows, just use elements of visual language
• Include the written beat on each beat-board
• Post to your Story and World Building Behance Portfolio