Storyboard Workbook: 100 storyboards for 32 square page Picture Books

Storyboard Workbook: 100 storyboards for 32 square page Picture Books

This Storyboard workbook will support you to get ideas out of your head and onto a page. Although designed for the 32-page picture book this workbook is suitable for use in any storytelling, be it book or film. Thinking like an illustrator can assist you as an author to polish your work—even if you “can’t draw”. Your manuscript is only the early stage of a picture book, thinking like an illustrator can make it more dynamic. With this workbook you will be prompted to manipulate the all-important word count, outline scenes of your story, breathe life into your pacing, and define the significant emotional moments. Writing a manuscript is the beginning. Storyboards are the natural kick-off point for an illustrator, so why should a text-only creator consider storyboarding? Well, as a text-only creator you need to realise that you are also a visual artist in the sense that your text creates moods and images with each carefully placed word. By storyboarding and thinking like an illustrator you have another opportunity to polish your manuscript. During the process you may discover parts of your story can be conveyed better as artwork rather than words, let the illustrations work their magic, effectively you’re cutting down that pesky word count. A picture book is a FULL story experience, it is just more concise than a novel or movie. The manuscript in your head (or computer) may seem to be the appropriate length, clear, and understandable—until you storyboard. Storyboarding will force you to edit and tighten your writing. Storyboarding allows you to plan how the story unfolds and divides up the text. You will see where the dramatic points are and be able to consider the rhythm of the story, this is what an illustrator does as they sketch in the basic design of each page. IMPORTANT—There is no need for you to worry about the quality of your drawings—they are for your eyes only. This storyboard workbook gives you visual feedback. It is your secret weapon to creating an incredibly publishable manuscript.