Streets, Art, SAFE Educator's Guide
Storyboarding

Lesson 5: Lesson Plan

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Present each part of the lesson in the following order:

KEY VOCABULARY (5 min.):

Storyboard: a sequential series of illustrations, stills [static images], rough sketches, and/or captions (sometimes resembling a comic or cartoon strip) of events, as seen through the camera lens, that outline the various shots or provide a synopsis for a proposed film story (or complex scene) with its action and characters; the storyboards are displayed in sequence for the purpose of visually mapping out and crafting the various shot divisions and camera movements in an animated or live-action film; a blank storyboard is a piece of paper with rectangles drawn on it to represent the camera frame (for each successive shot). [Film Site Film Terms Glossary from AMC, Written and Edited by Tom Dirks]

Attention-getter (15 min.):

Show students the Youth for Human Rights “Don’t Discriminate” PSA again. Afterwards, pass out the “Don’t Discriminate” Storyboard from TXL films for students to look at. Ask them why they think PSA filmmakers make storyboards.

Discussion (25 min.):

  1. Play students the Youth for Human Rights PSA, “Responsibility.” 

  2. Have students make a storyboard for it in reverse using blank Storyboard Sheets. 

  3. Once they have finished sketching their storyboards, ask them what they found most interesting, most helpful and most challenging about storyboarding.

Activity (35 min.):

Using their script drafts, have students begin storyboarding their PSAs on blank Storyboard Sheets. Once they have finished sketching a rough storyboard, have them exchange storyboards with another student to receive feedback. When looking over their peers’ work, students should try to imagine making this peer’s PSA. Do they have enough information to fully understand how this PSA should flow from start to finish? Are there gaps in the storyboard that should be filled? 

Assignment (5 min. in class, 25 min. at home):

Using the information they have learned and their peers’ feedback, instruct the students to continue working on their PSA storyboards at home until they have a complete storyboard finished.

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