Pre-Production
Storyboarding for Filmmakers
A storyboard is your film drawn before it's shot — the plan that turns a script into images and saves you time, money, and panic on set. You don't need to be an artist. Learn to see your movie shot by shot. Taught from the set by a working filmmaker.
What you'll learn
✓What a storyboard is, the shot types, and how to read a script for its images
✓How to draw a usable board even if you can't draw — stick figures and boxes
✓Composition, camera movement arrows, and sequencing a scene shot by shot
✓Shot lists, action storyboards, animatics, and the software that speeds it all up
Pairs with this tool
Storyboard Generator
Can't draw a stick figure? The Storyboard Generator turns your scene descriptions into frames — shot by shot — so you get a real, shareable board without ever picking up a pencil.
Open Storyboard Generator →Course chapters
Module 1 — Foundations
Module 2 — Core Craft
V9 min
You don't need to draw — stick figures and boxes work
How to Draw a Storyboard
VI9 min
Framing, angle, and what to put where in the frame
Composing the Frame
VII9 min
Showing camera and subject movement with arrows
Camera Movement & Arrows
VIII9 min
Sequencing a scene and keeping it continuous
Sequencing & Continuity
Module 3 — From Board to Set
IX9 min
Shot list vs. storyboard, and how they work together
Shot Lists & the Storyboard
X9 min
Boarding action, and how genre shapes the board
Storyboarding Action & Genre
XI9 min
Turning boards into animatics, and the software to use
Animatics & Software
XII8 min
The traps that make a storyboard useless
Common Storyboarding Mistakes