Storyboarding

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When we plan to make an educational video, as I usually do with my spy apprentices, it is important to think about the structure and the goals we want to achieve by using this resource. For this purpose we need to create a storyboard before recording the video. It consists of a graphic organiser in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of  previsualizing the video project, where each frame represents one of the scenes of the video. In addition, other details such as dialogues, music, or scenery can be part of the storyboard. Did you know that the storyboarding process as it is known today, was firstly developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s?

My dear teacher friend is starting a flipped classroom video project with some of his classmates, which aims at encouraging their students to start a research about Climate Change and Global Warming. The main educational objectives are:

- To introduce children to Climate Change and Global Warming.
- To make them think about which are the causes of these changes.
- To raise awareness about the impact in our planet of both phenomenons.
- To figure out how things could be done to mitigate this negative impact.

The video is going to show some examples of how Climate Change and Global Warming are changing weather in different places of our planet and encourage children to discover by themselves the causes and effects of this issue.

They have used Storyboardthat, a digital tool which was already mentioned in one of my previous posts.
In this creation they have represented the different scenes that are going to be recorded. They have also created a Google Doc to draft the script of the video project. It was not possible to add the link to the Storyboardthat creation as the license has already expired but the screenshot is included in the document.
Here you can see both the draft and the Storyboardthat creation: