Story Boarding - Writing Skills 101 (4 classes)

Every film, animation, advertisement, and graphic novel begins as a storyboard. A storyboard is a visual script that communicates complex ideas through sequential images. Students learn to break narratives into essential moments, discovering how much story a single frame can carry and how transitions between frames create meaning.
Language arts develop through the writing that accompanies visual work: scene descriptions, dialogue notation, and the precise communication required when your drawings must guide other creators. Students explore narrative structure by analyzing why certain story shapes satisfy audiences while others fall flat, then apply these principles to original work.
Design theory emerges through composition decisions within each frame and across sequences. Where does the eye travel? How does panel size affect pacing? What does an unusual angle communicate that a standard shot cannot?
Students complete the course with a finished storyboard project for their portfolio, plus grounded transferable skills in visual thinking that apply across creative and professional contexts.