Editing Storyboard (section)

===Film===
[[File:Storyboard for 8-minute cartoon.jpg|thumb|A storyboard for an [[animated cartoon]], showing the number of drawings (~70) needed for an 8-minute film.]]
A film storyboard (sometimes referred to as a shooting board), is essentially a series of frames, with drawings of the sequence of events in a film, similar to a [[comics|comic]] book of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand.  It helps [[film director]]s, [[cinematographers]] and [[television commercial]] [[advertising]] clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Besides this, storyboards also help estimate the cost of the overall production and save time.  Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement. For fast-paced action scenes, monochrome [[line art]] might suffice. For slower-paced dramatic films with an emphasis on lighting, color [[Impressionism|impressionist]] style art might be necessary.

In creating a [[motion picture]] with any degree of fidelity to a [[screenplay|script]], a storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. In the case of interactive media, it is the layout and sequence in which the user or viewer sees the content or information. In the storyboarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film or interactive media project can be efficiently described either in a picture or in additional text.

During [[principal photography]] for live-action films, scenes are rarely shot in the sequence in which they occur in the script.  It is also sometimes necessary to film individual shots within a scene out of order and on different days, which can be very confusing.  (The reasons for this are explained at length in the [[production board]] article.) In the latter scenario, directors can use storyboards on set to quickly refresh their memory as to the desired effect when those shots are later edited together in the correct order.<ref name="Katz_Page_103">{{cite book |last1=Katz |first1=Steven D. |title=Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen |date=1991 |publisher=Michael Wiese Productions |location=Studio City |isbn=9780941188104 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNkNacuK8poC&pg=PA103 |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref>  This is more efficient than having to reread the script for each shot (with cast and crew waiting) to refresh their memory as to how they originally visualized they would film that shot.<ref name="Katz_Page_103" />