Presentations: Storyboarding CTL Presentation Skills team http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ctl/presentation-skills
Presentations: Storyboarding
CTL Presentation Skills team
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ctl/presentation-skills
What is Story Boarding?
• The creation of a series of frames depicting what you want to say• Similar to what occurs in movie production
• Allows others to see the flow of your presentation
Storyboarding in 4 steps
1.Brainstorm
2.Group &
Identify the core ideas for
your presentation
3.Apply a visual
organizer
4.Create a
storyboard plan
What kind of perspective do you have?
▪ Describe
– What is happening?
– What people are involved? In
what way?
▪ Understand and Explain
– Why it is happening?
▪ Predict and Change
– What is likely to happen in the
future?
– How can it be made to be
different?
▪ Evaluate
– What has happened? Why did it
happen?
▪ Assess impacts
– What have been, or are likely to
be, its individual, social and
environmental consequences?
Why have these consequences
occurred?
Blaikie, N. Designing Social Research, 2000. Polity, UK.
Map out your research topic area: (consider
including…)- academic concepts/theories
- voices (peoples, individuals, organizations, movements)
- timescales (now/before/ever, pre-colonial, personal growth)
- resources (technical, corporate, scientific, power, community)
- tensions (power, struggle, resistance)
- difference (what has changed? how has it changed?)
…Knowing “which” story to tell is half the battle!
Steps 1-2: Brainstorm & Group Core Ideas (an iterative process… Do this with YOUR topic!)
Step 3: Decide how best to tell the story… (apply a visual organizer)
How would you tell your story?
Example:
▪ CATEGORICAL– Here’s a well-curated series
of themes / voices / experiences
Example:
▪ HIGHLY CLIMACTIC– A cascading series,
culminating in a final (or near final) expression
Step 3: Decide how best to tell the story… (apply a visual organizer)
How can you tell a compelling story?
Example:
▪ UNFOLDING PROCESS– It was how it was (describe how
it was). And now it is how it is (describe that too):
– Capture a state of affairs; observe the evidence and traces of change / struggle / resistance over some period of time; and, try to better understand how things came to be the way they now are
Don’t just describe. Explain!
Step 3: Decide how best to tell the story… (apply a visual organizer)
How would you tell any story?Example:
▪ SPATIAL / LIMINAL– Presented as a deliberate
choice of one vector/direction over others
– Consider: Eco Tourism, Religious pilgrimage, Adventure Tourism
Example:
▪ EXPANDING RADIUS– Focused exploration across
an expanding series of dimensions, e.g. My identity, vs. my identity and family life, vs. my identity in my community
Complete Step 3: Apply Visual Organizers
Mix & match.
Try one and see if it fits.
No “best” answer. Use the worksheets.
Come up with a “way” of telling your story…
Step 4: Make your own storyboarding plan
▪ At the end of the day,
you need a plan!– No matter how you tell your
story, it’ll be comprised of a
series of “things” – these may be
photographs, audio descriptions,
video clips, a step in the Prezi
path, witty and/or impactful text
on a screen.
– Let’s break it down into a series
of storyboards
▪ Turn your Step 3 efforts into a
storyboard…
▪ Break down by SCENE / SHOT
– Shot/Purpose: articulate why this
shot helps build / reveal the scene
– Visual requirements (image files,
videos, step in Prezi path,
Powerpoint Slide, …? )
– Audio/Textual requirements (text
script, audio voiceover)
Activity
Resources!