The document provides guidance on how to effectively annotate a storyboard to gain higher marks. It recommends including arrows within frames to indicate any character or camera movement. Sound effects and durations should be noted below or above each frame. Transitions between frames like cuts or fades should be labeled. Lighting descriptions like low/high key or natural/artificial lighting should also be included. The best storyboards will have annotations justifying the creative choices and their intended effects.

1. How to annotate your
storyboard
Gaining those higher marks!
Happy drawing, year 13!!!

2. Any movement from both character and camera should
be indicated with an arrow within the frame
Sound, both diegetic and non diegetic should be included
in the space below.
The time spent on each frame, even if it is a matter of
matter of seconds, should be listed at the top of each
frame.
Any transitions used between the frames should be
written in e.g. cut, tilt, pan, dissolve, fade…
Lighting – Low key or high key, natural or artificial.
The crème de la crème of storyboards will have these decisions annotated to justify why they have been chosen (their effect)