STORY Overview

• The STORY (Storyboard) visualizes a Project SOW regarding creative, content, technology and project management.
• The STORY (Storyboard) deliverable utilizes rough thumbnails, rough layout, wireframing, blocking and/or diagramming.
• Overview of STORY
• STORY types
• Structure/Navigation
• Linear Comic 4x2 8-Block
• Linear Comic 3x3 9-Block
• Hier Tree 3 Level 10-Block
• Hier Ring 2 Level 10 Block
• Script Vertical 3-Block
• Script Horiz 6-Block
• It's all about STORY!
• STORY holds our interest.
• Hold the audiences interest no matter what.
• It is critical you develop a STORY (storyline) of interest to your selected and defined target audience.
• This project and this class is all about STORY!
• STORY must be of value to hold an audience's interest.
• Consider a targeted audience, write, capture, edit, show and present a STORY with value; defend its value.
• Consider the Greek Classic phases of storytelling.
• Develop a highy graphical, illustrated or photography based interactive interface STORY (STORYboard).
• An equivalent STORY Board of your own character, setting, obstacles, climactic moment and resolution for your own selected audience is DUE.
• PUT YOUR NAME ON IT, please, First AND Last
• Use two colors minimum.
• Helpful Tip
• Comic Life - (MAC) Storyboarding background - helpful software tool
• DIAGRAM versus BLOCKING
• Through the process of creating both a Diagram page and a Blocking page, communicate, give and receive critical review toward preliminary conceptual, aesthetic and visual considerations of a project
• Diagram page and a Blocking page, communicate, give and receive critical review toward preliminary conceptual, aesthetic and visual considerations of a project.
• On the left half of the page illustrate what is known to architects and draftsperson's as the "Horizontal View" (Front View).
• On the right half of the page illustrate what architects and draftperson's call the "Profile View" ("Side View").
• Both views should be one-to-one, equally spaced reflections of the other, yet at ninety degree angles to one another.
• LINEAR (FILMSTRIP/COMIC STRIP)
• Script/comic strip-based
• 9-up on a page
• 6-up on a page with captions
• 3-up on a page, two column with script
• HIERARCHICAL (PYRAMID, STAR, FOLDER (Collapsable Menus))
• Create 8-10 panels to represent your STORY.
• Non-linear, interactive pyramid-based
• Illustrate interactive screen layouts within each block.
• Visualize a distinct interface from various respective drilll-downs.
• Each block might best represent "leves" of a navigable GUI (Graphic User Interface)
• 3 aligned block "Levels" with headings - levels of interaction, each proportionate in size and equally spaced
• "Level 1" - top'cover, main topical menu, introduction or "home page"
• "Level 2" - mid/chapter/category, secondary categorical levels, "chapter-like" topical divisions,
• "Level 3" - low/detail/content oriented, tertiary detailed information level, subject specific "data-driven" pages