Story
boards
Like an outline
for a paper, flowcharts and story boards save time
and improve the quality of the final product by assisting
us in the planning and preparation stages of a project.
They help us plan what we are going to do so we know
where a project is going. Then they keep us focused
on the final goal.
Story boards are used
primarily in film making to design individual shots
before filming. They are also common in comic strip,
animation, TV commercials, and multimedia design,
but can be used for many other sorts of projects.
Whereas a flowchart focuses on movement through a
system, a story board or "content flowchart" allows
far more detailed illustration of the contents of
each element The story board should contain a sketch
of the visual aspect of the screen, information which
will be present, descriptions of animations, interactions
(e.g. dialog boxes), sounds, and any other media.
Although story boards were originally linear, the
addition of branching diagrams from flowcharts makes
them useful for non-linear multimedia development.
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