Bitstrips Assignment

BitStrips Storyboarding Assignment

Background

Before you can begin ‘shooting a scene’ in any video, it is important that you have a clear vision of what you would like your audience to see and attempt to capture that through the lens of the camera.

To facilitate this, filmmakers use storyboarding to provide a visual template for the video to follow. The story board should contain a snapshot of all the major characters, action and settings of the story. You will be using BitStrips to create your storyboards to demonstrate that you have a grasp of the content of your video, and how you would like it to appear.

Procedure

Go to www.bitstripsforschools.com and login to your account (please check the name at the top to ensure it is your account – if it isn’t hit the refresh button in Internet Explorer). Select the ‘Make a New Comic’button and choose the six panel layout (more panels will be needed later). Using the tools in bitstrips create a storyboard of a movie you might

potentially shoot, using the characters, scenes and events that exist within Bitstrips. Please remember that camera angles and zooms should be reflected in the storyboard.

*Note: because you are limited to content within Bitstrips, some ‘compromise’ may be needed when designing storyboards – if a required object is not present, replace it with something else.

Content

A separate panel should exist for any major change in movement, new characters introduced to the scene, or a change in location.

A minimum of fifteen panels is required for this assignment. Speech bubbles should be included to indicate the dialogues for the movie. As well, you should use a text box to indicate any music or sound effects that are taking place.

Evaluation

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Content	Minimal amount of content included.	Missing character, actions or setting. Some content included, but still missing one major component.	Most content present, but with limited exposur e (complete actions is not present)	All required content present in detail allowing for an easy flow to the story and the action.
Professionalism	Strips appear hurried with little concern for placement, scale or appearance.	Strips show some attempt to match scale and placement, but not consistent.	Strips reflect a good/believable use of scale and placement.	Strips appear to have been conscientiously organized with details such as facial expression and body language being demonstrated.
Storyline	No clear storyline present.	Some storyline present, but large gaps o making it confusing.	Able to follow storyline, but actions or flow make it appear choppy.	Storyline flows well and is easily followed through the content in the strips.

Learning Goal

Create a 9 panel comic that follows the basic narrative.

For a visual representation, look below.

Steps to Success
1) Login to Bitstrips. The class code is
cwasm201
[Link to Bitstrips]

2) Start a new comic and build one that follows your basic narrative with
i) Establishing Shot – where is the action going to take place?

ii)Some type of goal of the character/characters is established

iii)There is some type of obstacle, some tension

iv) The climax with some quick action.

v) The denouement, the final resolution

EvaluationI will be evaluating based on
1) Knowledge of the Basic Narrative
2) Communication of the story
3) Application of Bitstrips to create a successful comic