Storyboarding Essentials: SCAD Creative Essentials

by David H. Rousseau, Benjamin Reid Phillips

A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organizing a project--a motion picture, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence--in order to translate artists' ideas from story to screen. Whether you're a filmmaker, animator, ad director, writer, or video-game artist--storyboarding is a skill that is absolutely critical. Storyboarding Essentials covers everything students and working professionals need to master the art of writing and formatting scripts, creating frames, and following visual logic to create a cohesive narrative.

Genres: Art, Writing, Nonfiction, Film, Drawing

398 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good introduction to storyboarding, but very basic.

[Hannes Huber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Veeeeery very Basic. These really are the „essentials“. Although I don’t even consider them being that…

„Framed Ink“ and the „Storyboard Design Course“ were way better

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked this up for some tips on storyboarding for eLearning and really enjoyed this! It has nothing to do with eLearning, but I picked up a few tips from this concise and insightful guide to storyboarding for film and television. This was a great behind the scenes of production to plan shots and resources based on script and using storyboards to plan and speak creatively. The book provides examples from SCAD student work on film, game design, and sequential media.

One tip: 30 commercials are typically <75 words based on average speaking rate of 150 words per minute. I can use that tidbit in planning out how long a sequence of eLearning will be based on word count.

[Alfred Muchilwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

What will this book provide you with? An incisive look at the craft of storyboarding that's written in language clear enough for the layman paired with academic pedigree.

Within these pages you will find a healthy mix of instruction, examples, quizzes and interviews with professional storyboard artists and film makers. For individuals who may be familiar with the basics you will find some concepts and approaches that you may not have previously considered.

Definitely worth buying if you want to expand your knowledge or need a good reference text for teaching storyboarding.

[Wayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

2023 promises to be opportunistic if I can do my part, and this book, among a few others, are my foundation for taking on some storyboarding work in the near future. While I have formidable skills with illustration, this is going to be a new world for me. Onward and upward! As for my review of the book in question, I found it very informative, comprehensive, and not at all hard to read and comprehend despite it being largely new territory for me as an artist. I look forward to using it as a constant reference as I move forward.

[Moses Cirulis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The directions are basic and don’t go too deeply into details on today’s primarily digital Storyboarding methods. But it captures the basic principles and needs of Storyboarding really well, so it’s a book I’ll be regularly coming back to.

[Marcela Pichaud · Rating 3 out of 5]

En verdad está bastante bien para empezar pero le quito estrellas porque fue solo leer cosas que ya sabía y pensé que quizás aprendería algo nuevo.

[Rolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good if you want a practical how-to guide--a bit less interesting and overly details-focused if you aren’t a filmmaker and are just wanting to learn more about the craft.

[Matthew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed learning more about storyboarding, which is something that I didn't really know much of anything about. While it was informative and helpful at times, I would have enjoyed it a lot more if the authors would have referenced more movies and scenes I had heard of instead of random movies that seemed to be filmed in Savannah.

[Andre Steyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant handguide to more than just storyboarding also to the basics of film/tv making jargon.