How to Use a Successful Storyboard for your Corporate Film
A storyboard is the graphical representation of your video. These boards are comprised of some sequences from your video with specific notes for each scene. It’s crucial for any video to have a storyboard as it’s the visual layout of what your video will look like. Also, it up-keeps the creative plan alongside keeping the goal clear.
For a long time, storyboards were associated with ad films and entertainment videos. However, the scope of storyboards has expanded by the rising demand for corporate videos. Today, the corporate film makes widely use storyboards to gain clarity and command over their product.
This brings us down to the question, how to make a storyboard?
The people with a bad hand for art can rest assured, you don’t need to be an artist to draw a storyboard. In fact, a storyboard needs to have enough information about every scene and should be easy to understand. If you think your storyboard is not conveying the idea, add a note for the same, and you are good to go.
Sketching is not the only way of producing a storyboard. It could either be hand drawn, can use photographs, and can be made through design software like Illustrator. A director can use any approach he sees fit to get the final result.
While a storyboard is pretty essential, it’s not mandatory. The use of storyboard largely depends upon the type of video you plan. A corporate video surely needs one, as there are many elements to work on. Investing your time and money on a storyboard is the best way to pull off a corporate video.
A lot of times, the client asks their hired Corporate film production company to share the storyboard with them. As the storyboard will be the company’s chance as a customer to know what they are getting.
Remember, as a customer, you can share your inputs in the storyboard – this will save time, money and effort for all involved. However, the key to remember is this – the story, dialogues and look of the video can change during shooting, if the need arises.
Getting a corporate film prepared can be a tedious and lengthy task. But, it need not be if you used a storyboard to get your message across. Here, we are discussing the many advantages of a storyboard in corporate film production.
