Before we leave off talking about visuals—photos, illustrations and infographics—let’s cover storyboarding, too. Storyboards lay out the visual stories of planned video and film, including the animated sorts. Computer games begin as storyboards. Today’s computer-generated imagery (CGI) also begins with “previsualization” storyboards. In most cases, then, storyboarding involves representing moving pictures and sound with still pictures and type.

A storyboard visualizes the entire project in the form of individual scenes, shots or screens. A concept storyboard distills the project down to the minimum number of views necessary to tell the story. A production storyboard or a shooting ...

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