Your Name:________________________ Project Title:____________________
( Remember to number your frames according to script page # or order of presentation.)
Storyboard Template Exercise
Think of the storyboard as a comic strip or graphic novel. Each block of your board will
have a picture with an action and a line of two of dialog. You should draw pictures in
every box, type or handwrite a description of the action below the blocks. For each
action, write a script or summarize the action for your characters. If you need more
storyboard pages, make copies and include them with your entry. Keep them clearly
marked with page numbers according to your full scripts, if necessary. NOTE: If you like
this simple template, you can remove this block of text and the “how to” section, and use
the template again and again.
Try this:
Almost every TV commercial you have ever seen began as a storyboard. The storyboard
is a sheet of paper that breaks down the elements of a video production into what you
see and what you hear.
Your storyboard for this contest is divided into eight frames. Within each frame is a box
shaped like a TV screen with some lines below it. Using pictures or words, you will use
the TV shaped box to describe what one sees in your commercial. Then you will type or
write in what words or sound effects are heard in the lines below that box. This is the
Audio. It can be the spoken words of people on camera, the words of an announcer
who is not on camera, or words that appear on the screen. Sometimes it’s a
combination of all three. It really depends on your idea. In the advertising industry this is
called the “copy.”
As what you show on screen changes, add a simple drawing or type out or
handwrite a description in the next box with the audio below.
Remember though, you only have 30-seconds to get everything done. So your
storyboard shouldn’t be very long or complex. For more tips on keeping it simple
refer to Introduction to Advertising.
For this exercise try to storyboard an existing commercial, or create one for a “made
up” product, if you prefer. If you are working on a longer project (and we hope you
are) then try to create a storyboard for the trailer or 30 second commercial about
your upcoming project. If you’ve used the “index card” approach for outlining, then
this might be an easy task. See if having the smaller cards (your ideas in capsule
form) has helped you to “spot” your best material for inclusion into the storyboard.
Be creative. Be original. Change your mind. Change the order of the panels.
Have fun.
Your Name:________________________ Project Title:____________________
( Remember to number your frames according to script page # or order of presentation.)
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Audio cues:
Audio cues:
Significant dialogue:
Significant dialogue:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Audio cues:
Audio cues:
Significant dialogue:
Significant dialogue:
Your Name:________________________ Project Title:____________________
( Remember to number your frames according to script page # or order of presentation.)
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Audio cues:
Audio cues:
Significant dialogue:
Significant dialogue:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Draw & describe the action in the block:
Audio cues:
Audio cues:
Significant dialogue:
Significant dialogue: