Storyboards
On Friday during class, we were asked to complete a workshop on storyboarding. Kyle give us between 30 to 40 minutes in class to draw the storyboard process of our website. We could be creative as possible and use images and text. I looked at my prototype from the previous week, to help me create my storyboard which showed the potential steps users will take when going through my website.
When doing this, we had to ask ourselves the following 4 questions:
- Does it make sense?
- What could be improved?
- What isn’t needed?
- What’s missing?
What is storyboarding?
A Storyboard is a visual respresentation of what your project will like look on completion. Weather it be a film, animation, book, or website they all follow a simple storyboard layout. Storyboarding normally happens at they very start of any project during the preproduction stage. This is normally done with a pencil and piece of paper. A storyboard is mainly images of each screen on your website and possibly a short description explaining each one. When designing anything it’s important to make sketches.
My storyboard
I started to redrew my prototype images as this is what my site will roughly look like on screen.
I begun sketching out the opening screen which will transition to the moon expanding. Next will be the rocket and mission, followed by the 3 astronauts and the story of the Apollo 11.
I think trying to add animations to my website will create a visual impact on my audience.
I thought it would be better doing it all in black and white before adding colour.
At the moment this is what it looks like but it subjected to change.
Reflection
Overall, I felt this was helpful excercise. I demostrated the steps the users would take to get from one section to another. By doing this it allows for better interaction between user and website. It also opened my eyes to more things I could improve on my website. I may not be the best drawer but I tried to show as clear as possible the different screens the user may potentially follow on my website.