L6 - Storyboard - Understanding

This is a sample of the storyboard I was given by the L6 student. Now before thinking of producing an animatic for it ( like was requested to do so for the L6 student), I need to quickly re-design so it would be suitable (using everything I have learnt about storyboarding) for the animation.

My aim is to keep everything as simple as possible, uncoloured, because my main effort and focus will be on the final animatic. So I believe it is time to redesign this storyboard. (This will help me produce an animatic that works). - Also I must not drift away from the original storyboard, I just need to modify a few things to make it suitable for the animation !

I will be using a storyboard template of my own to re-design the storyboard.

Storyboarding - Effects, movements indications...

Storyboard Templates

The reason why I thought I would do some research on some storyboard templates, it is to understand better what things I should be understanding in the different storyboards I might come across (like for instance, different clients might have different storyboards style). Also this is a good way to work on my storyboard style "like the things I should not forget to include" for my storyboard to be successful -Background number, scene number, time, scene name, page number, description...-

Animated Storyboards

Finally soma samples on animated cartoons. They all vary from black and white style to colourful style. They have similarities with film storyboards when talking about movements indications, panning, zooming.

On the storyboards above, we do not see descriptions boxes but usually apart from movements arrows or effects indications, there is always a description box next to the scene and backgrounds numbers.

Film storyboards

Film storyboards are very similar to animated cartoons storyboards. They lack colour and details sometimes, probably because the final film will contain too many movements and details to draw in a storyboard. Here are some storyboard samples that I found.

Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone.

Smallville

It happens that in some cases, the ads storyboards are designed in black and white

Advertisement Storyboards

As I was observing advertising storyboards, I noticed similarities for all of them. Most of the time they are always drawn in colours, often have watercolour style applied to them and they DO NOT have any movement indications of any sort. They are very close to the final animation style (As in the background design looks like the one used in the real ad, the colours applied to the different objects are most of time similar to those of the real ad).

There are also ads which have plain, full colours (not watercolour style).
Here are samples of various ad designs and styles.