Online education

Not an Artist? Need a Storyboard for Your Video Project? No Problem!

As many of you know, I'm in the process of developing an online video training program to teach business writing skills. Sadly, it's been a longer process than I hoped -- there's a lot of organizing that needs to be done. What scenes do I want to show? Are there some locations I could use (besides a training room) that would make the course more interesting? In what order should I present the learning? How much of it should be screen captures of a slide show? I've come up with hundreds of these types of questions!

A friend, seeing my accelerating distress had a recommendation: "Why don't you storyboard it? It'll help you get it out of your head and into a format -- AND you'll feel like  filmmaker." 

HAHAHA. I am not an artist. I am SO MUCH not an artist, I became a writer instead.

"Oh, no, you don't have to be an artist," he said. "Try StoryboardThat."

What a discovery! You really don't need to be an artist to use it; you just drag scenes, characters, text bubbles -- just about anything you could need -- into frames of a storyboard. Once they're dragged in there, you can adjust poses, colors, perspectives. And the choices of scenes and characters are limitless.

This picture shows you the categories of characters and a fraction of the Medieval characters that are available across the top (because the second frame of my storyboard was what I worked on last). In the first frame, you'll see my attempt at showing myself in a classroom. (I was lonely, so I moved my dog in, too.)

And funny enough? I DO feel like a filmmaker. I'm so excited to use this tool to get that online business writing program built.

Speaking of which: if you were wanting to learn business writing online, what are the two most important topics you would want to be sure were included in the program? Leave me a comment here and let me know.

By the way -- StoryboardThat lets you build two storyboards per week for free. They also offer paid subscriptions if your needs are greater than that. Happy filmmaking!