Function

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  Storyboards are a scene-by-scene creation of a movie's screenplay. They are drawn as rough sketches by artists to give cinematographers and directors guidance in the creation of a film. Typically, every camera shot and planned angle will be drawn out in a storyboard so it almost flows like a movie.
  
  

Features

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  A single storyboard is made up of several elements. The first is the scene itself. Characters are drawn into the scene, and unless it is necessary, the background is usually absent. One of the corners features a scene number and letter to keep track of the storyboards, and there may be a small description underneath. Storyboards also feature arrows to signal camera movements or actor movements within the scene.
  
  

Types

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  Traditionally, storyboards were all drawn by hand, but now the process can be done in several ways. Computer artists can render storyboards using specific programs like StoryBoard Pro. This allows directors to give more input and actually manipulate the storyboards themselves if they know how to use the program. Hand-drawn storyboards are typically in black and white, but animated films may use color to help represent scenes to finish. Storyboards are tacked together in order on large walls or scanned and placed together to create a video slideshow.
  
  

Benefits

• Storyboards keep a film's progression organized and help keep track of every scene. They may make a filmmaker make large changes to the script and flow of the movie due to an error seen through the storyboard process. This saves a lot of time and money if found during the filmmaking process.
  
  

Potential

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  Storyboards have been a useful process that filmmakers use as extras on DVDs. Viewers can actually view a split screen of the storyboards and live film to make comparisons and see how close they actually stick to what is drawn. Owners of original storyboards can actually make good money selling them to movie fans through auction websites.