Tools for Storyboarding

The best storyboard tool includes features and functionality that are specifically designed with professional storyboard artists in mind. In StudioBinder, you have full editing control over the image to dial in your precise vision, including adding text, arrows, filters, and more. 

When you set out to make your storyboard, there is a lot of freedom in how you go about it. That being said, here are some basic storyboarding steps you can follow.

1. Read your script and think about what shots would be best
2. Start with a blank storyboard template
3. Add your images (either hand-drawn or digitally created)
4. Label your images with scene and shot numbers
5. Include a description for each shot for context
6. If there is camera or character movement, insert arrows to indicate that
7. Assemble your completed storyboards in story order

The two main methods for storyboarding are with hand-drawn images on paper and digital storyboards with images found online or using AI images. Either one will fulfill the necessary function of the storyboard; it just comes down to your preference between the two.

A reverse storyboard is the process of storyboarding an existing project after it's been shot and edited. For example, watching a scene from Batman and storyboarding it yourself. But why would you do this? First, it's a great opportunity to practice making a storyboard, but secondly and most importantly, it allows you to study how the scene was constructed. 

A storyboard template is a document or digital file that has blank storyboard frames and lines for descriptions already completed. Then all you have to do is fill in the images and write out the text.

At a basic level, the one thing you want to have in place before storyboarding is the script. Beyond that, you might want to hire your cinematographer and production designer so that they might have input into the storyboard process.