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Using Storyline to storyboard projects
At last week's workshop with Charity Learning, we talked about storyboarding courses and the formats available to designers.
It doesn't matter at all how designers choose to write and storyboard ...
Holly, I like that... but where do you put the narration script (if you have one)?
My usual workflow is slightly different: I do an "initial storyboard" review where the narration script is pretty fleshed out, and the screen content is in a "draft" state - it's sketched out but there are lots of placeholders for images, etc. Interactions aren't built, but are described in very general terms. At this point I just publish out to Word, with the pictures of the screens and the Notes (narration script) below them - but I like the idea of a table. Any notes are on the screen in a color-coded box, or in the Notes section in italics/bold. Then the reviewers make their edits/comments using Track Changes. Once I go through this process to get the content nailed down, then I build everything out and have them review a functional version.
Often there's another storyboard review in between, depending on how solid/stable the content was in the first review. And sometimes, especially for new clients, I'll do a functional prototype at the very beginning, so they can see what to expect in terms of functionality, player, etc. and we can test in their LMS.
