Starting the script and storyboards

I started the storyboards about a dozen times, the angles and view changed so much, it seems silly to make you all read it ALL, so ive only included one of the drafts and the final.
As you can see im very messy when it comes to work i think nobody will ever have to look at, but i think thats the same as writers as well, as long as i understand it is what matters. unless of course someone actually has to read it, then id need to fix a few lines and be a bit tidier with my hand writing.

But of course you cant storyboard until you are a hundred percent sure of what your story is.
This means scripting!
So i decided in the end to just go for the full three pages so the story maes sense, besides its a teaser promo, no fan wants half a page. they want more.
Below you can see the original pages, but by this stage id flipped throgh this book, especially those three pages so much the book was threatening to fall apart, so  copied it out and numbered the lines, this came in handy when it came time for referencing the storyboards to the script so anyone could follow along.

My referencing script.... to anyone going to do any story boarding  with narration, i highly recommend having a copy of the narration like this and numbered, it makes things so much handier, and when it comes time for presentation or feedback, its easy enough to follow. 

One of the draft storyboards, this is one of the last

The slightly tidier final storyboard. 

Things i feel need included in a storyboard for me to follow, is a storyboard number.... to make sure nothing gets jumbled, i did this through page numbers.

extra room for notes.

sounds or sound effects that would come up in this shot.

if its a narration, a numbered referencing system, like ive done eg the second board on page one has lines 7-9.

any particular transitions, in and out

a word, line or small paragraph describing whats actually happening in the board.

This stuff for me personally are must haves when storyboarding, it makes life so much easier when explaining my work to others and regardless of how long ago i created the storyboard ill remember whats happening and of course it makes animating the storyboard easier, even in post production.

Very little changed between this final story board and the final animation short. I didnt put extreme detail into the storyboards as i re did them so many times. i put detail in certain aspects that i wanted to remember, otherwise it was all basics shapes and scribbles, this was for planning purposes, not presentation.