Storyboarding - Resources and Vlogging Assistance

Thank you for the great explanation, and the suggestions about the 3x5s, My Idea Map, and the great outline pdf you made.  I've been researching how to make quick storyboards for a short film I'm planning on making in segments for my RFTV classes in college.  However, as great your suggestions are for an artistically-inclined, many aspiring (or professional, for that matter) directors are pretty adept at only stick figures.

So I thought I'd mention this great program I found that pulled some of my classmates through their prerequisites in storyboarding: StoryBoard Quick.  I think that this would be a worthy mention in addition to the suggestions you've made.  As I said, I've been looking for cost-effective ways to go about storyboarding, and this software looks to be the best for its price range.  I've seen it in action, and it looks great: filled to the brim with content and graphics, rotatable and "colorizable" for amazing customization, as well as including the ability to import any graphic that you pulled from the internet, etc.

Check it out and see if it's as helpful as I'm finding it to be.

while i didn't get to this session during blogher 2007, i'm in the midst of rereading the content and live blogs from both 07 and 08....vlogging is something i'm completely compelled to dive in. am trying to find basic video cam and figure out how to upload to my macbook...i used story boards when i taught writing in middle school. i oughta be usin' em now to focus my blogs better :) ha. :) longwinded am i....must check your now posts...looking forward to learning this...i'm sooo determined..ever since i volunteered last spring at miami international women's film fest and saw a doc on camera women...one in particular put a camcorder in the hands of women farmers in india..to watch what they filmed and then to see how the claiming ownershi of their lives....through film...it's enough to want me to start 'one video camera per woman' like the recent ongoing campaign 'one laptop per child.'

many hugs for making is SOUND so easy :) and simple. if i ride a motorcycle and can change its battery I CAN DO THIS!!! (my lil daily pep talk)...:)

Tre ~ http://thoughtbythought.net

Many thanks again for a great session at BlogHer. I learned a ton and you and your compadres did a great job despite the time constraints.

Thanks for the sending the links - I'll be using them.

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Not that I videoblog any more, but I do still make videos (for my own consumption, more than anything) and I can definitely see the value in storyboarding. Some of the earlier videos I made and edited would definitely have benefited from some pre-visualisation - more to make sure that everything that needed to be there, *was* there (i.e. shot) rather than cutting out the bloat (because you can always do that at edit time).

So, once again, these resources are great! Thank you!

Thank you very much for the information. I've worked in digital media projects in schools over the last few years and we've adopted the pratice of using storyboards for anything from producitng stop-motion animations to anti-violence viedo. Many of your links are new to me, which is wonderful.

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I suggest storyboarding even if you don't plan on having different scenes. It gives you a good way to orient your story and make sure that you're giving viewers something complete and meaningful.

I'm working on my first vlog entry right now for HeatEatReview.com and so far the toughest parts have been a) finding the food and b) not laughing.

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I'm adding a link to my screencasting primer
http://screencastingprimer.wikispaces.com

This rocks.

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I have some of these sites bookmarked but many are new to me.

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