Storyboards are panels that illustrate scenes from a movie, animation, or interactive media in sequence to help visualize and plan shots. The Walt Disney Studios developed storyboarding in the early 1930s. A film storyboard acts like a comic strip of the film, helping the director and producers visualize scenes to plan the budget and find potential issues. Storyboards include arrows to indicate movement and give a visual layout of events through the camera lens. This planning allows for experimenting with changes and input from different people. However, storyboarding is not the best technique for planning dialog scenes as it can make them too fragmented with multiple camera additions.

1. Storyboarding

2. In General
Storyboards are panels which are used to organize shots in the form of illustrations
or images displayed in sequence to pre-visualize a movie, an animation, motion
graphic or interactive media sequence.
The process of storyboarding was developed by the Walt Disney Studios in the
early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being used at Walt Disney and
other animation studios.

3. Storyboarding for films
Basically a film storyboard is a large comic version of the film or a section of the film,
which is produced beforehand to help the director, cinematographer and producers
visualize the scenes, so they can figure out the budget and find potential problems before
they occur.
Storyboards also include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.
In creating a film from a script, a storyboard gives you a visual layout of events as they will
be seen through the camera lens.
The biggest advantage of using storyboards is that it is easy to experiment with changes in
the storyline to emphasize reaction or interest.
A good example for that are flashbacks, which are a result of laying storyboards next to
each other out of order.
This type of planning allows people to brainstorm together in a group, placing their ideas
on storyboards and then arranging them on a wall. This way the film has more input and
artistic influence from different people.

4. Why Storyboarding doesn’t work
Storyboarding is essential for planning complex scenes and sequences. But when it comes
down to planning a dialog scene storyboarding is the worst technique to plan that scene.
The reason for that is, that every time a new action happens a new camera is added through
storyboarding, which will make the scene really cutty.
But most people use storyboards to plan their shots.
A better and more efficient way to plan shots is to write down blocking like notation is used
to write down music.
I will tell you how to use this technique in a different PowerPoint.

5. Storyboarding for Dummies
Here are some videos that will show you the basics of storyboarding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uhaJhT25hU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_Em1lVsjI