This is a sample of the storyboard pages I did with the kids. This is not an iVIE entry, but rather, a teaching film, so we talked through all shots and took notes together, and learned how to do this in PAGES, but then went right on to the shooting plan (see below). A conventional storyboard works super well on a simple project like a PSA, which can be planned and shot quickly. With a more elaborate project that takes six to eight weeks to complete, like this one, it is a good exercise to see visually how shots will look, but the script and shooting plan, in my experience, are more valuable. For one thing, you don't always have the actual actors for the storyboard, and that can be confusing to tech kids looking at it later. For another thing, if kids are actively involved, it evolves over time, and they get better ideas. Shots are added, shots are deleted. For their own videos, it's an important step, but for a teaching video like this it's good to teach it and then move on.
