Story boards and the past
Story Boards examples from the Past
Story boards began as a tool for film makers but are now being used by a range of design disciplines. At CSM we use them extensively for the MA for Narrative Environments. My question was are there any example from the past which might be useful for my students to consider. These are my examples:
Bayeaux
tapestry
The tapestry moves through time and
space with a clear narrative. Different narrative layers are used.
Simple conventions make it easier to read – the English for example
have moustaches while the Normans have pudding basin hairstyles.
Text is limited to crucial identification of leading characters.
Places are not spelt out though can be identified by those who know
by context and form.It is linear and has beautiful clarity. The top
and bottom strips allow additional information often decorative but
often individual stories or symbols.
The following shows a scrolling video of the Tapestry:
Charles Duke of Orleans
in the
Tower
This is a single image but time is
shown passing. This is indicated by the simple method of showing
Charles in distinctive clothes so you can recognise the multiple
occurrences of this person as time passing..
The duke is shown in prison in the
Tower writing – is he writing his poetry (this is the frontispiece
of his book of poetry) or is he writing a letter to his relatives
saying 'Oi! I've been here 20 years while you fail to raise my
ransom!' (he was imprisoned for 20 years after being taken prisoner
at the Battle of Agincourt while his family raised the enormous
ransom).
He is shown looking out of the window
for the ransom money to arrive; he is shown greeting the money; he is shown riding out of the Tower to
freedom; he is shown boating to freedom to a
boat to take him home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans#/media/File:Towrlndn.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans#/media/File:Towrlndn.JPG
Siege of Lachish British Museum
This is an alabaster relief which provides an extended
portrait of a siege of a town in Palestine by King Senacherib of
Assyria. It is like a long camera pan across the battlefield
but time passes as you move from left to right seamlessly but you
also move geographically from the West to the East. So it doesn't
have frames.
Here is a youtube illustration of the siege relief
Trajan's Column
Trajan's Column shows a vast
scrolling narrative of the invasion of Dacia by Trajan. It is full
of detail and is used by Archaeologists to understand Roman military
campaigns and methods of colonisation. The relief are quite subtle
often using different viewpoints to elucidate information and can be
used as a model of using images to tell a story.
But what makes it interesting is that
it would have been very difficult to read despite the fact that the
Romans built 2 libraries to the side of it with viewing platforms.
Trajan is depicted 58 times (in yellow above); his ashes were buried
in a vault on the ground level, and a statue of him on top. So the
main reading was probably to glorify the Emperor – the detail was
as much to impress as to be read by the public.
You can see a plaster cast in the
Cast Courts of the V&A.
This is an interesting article on the
Column. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/article.html
and you might enjoy this short stop motion animation documentary
about building the Column
And in case you want some proper film storyboards have a look at these:
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