Storyboards

This assignment required a lot more creativity than others we've done. You had to think about the importance of sequence and how you can use still images to illustrate key ideas in a story. The hardest part for me was trying to link the required pictures for the second storyboard. None of the images really had anything in common, so it was interesting to create a link between them.

This first story only used one of the pictures to create a story with a beginning middle and end. I used the picture of the little girl as the middle, and created the rest of the story around it.



The second story used two of the required images. I used the picture of the boys wearing face masks in a polluted looking area, and the same picture of the little girl. The first past of the story introduces the problem. The image of the boys came second to reinforce the problem. The third image was used to show how the problem in the story was being resolved, and the last image of the little girl illustrated the outcome.


**Both of my stories use scene-to-scene transitions throughout. The stories use only 3-4 panels, and cover longer periods of time. If the stories had been longer, I could have used moment-to-moment or action-to-action transitions to create a more detailed story. Because the ones I created only represent the main ideas over a longer time span, scene-to-scene transitions work better to tell the story.

Overall I thought this was a fun assignment. I tried to pick images and place them so that the viewer could look at them and understand the idea of the story without reading the text word for word. I learned how to pick the main ideas of a story out and simplify with a few images, while still getting the overall point across.