Title of lesson Intro to Storyboarding Grade level Sec 4 IB

(September 28, 2018)

Subject: Introduction to Film Topic: Storyboarding
Resources The Shining clip, storyboarding template, guiding questions
Required
QEP C2: Reads and listens to written, spoken and media texts
Subject Area - Integrates reading profiles, stance, and strategies to make sense of a text in
Competencies a specific context
C3: Produces texts for personal and social purposes
- Extends repertoire of resources for producing texts
- Adopts a process to produce texts in specific contexts
Learning activities: Learning Objectives:
Students will:
1. Last class students: - Students will think about
a) Came into class having viewed a curation that gave dialogue and action in a story
them background on the origins of the horror genre as specific, separate ideas
b) Took notes and discussed storyboarding - Students will explore the
c) Went home with homework: to view a curation that process of deciding how to
gave them additional insight into storyboarding (see combine art and text in a story
https://elink.io/9218aa7) - Students will think about how
camera angles and shots are
2. Recap from last class: used to create a mood in a
- Salient points from storyboarding Powerpoint scene or series of scenes in a
- Thoughts about curation: did you learn anything new? film
(5 min)
Relevance:
3. You have the notes, you have the theory, now for the This lesson is a ‘practice run’ for a later task
practice! in which they storyboard a short story as
- Students will need their notes from last class (?) and their though it is being adapted for film. The
shots & angles sheets broader concept, of “reading” a text and
- Everyone gets the storyboard template. Template is picking out the dialogue and action, help
explained them to understand how images are placed
- Show an example from previous years alongside and inside text to create coherent
(5 min) meaning.

4. Before we get started, some reminders: you don’t need to
be an artist. Here we will be working backwards – from
film to storyboard – but later we will be working
forwards – adapting a story to a storyboard.
(5 min)
Essential Question(s):
How do we take a film and adapt it into a
visual/textual form? How can we begin to
understand the process of filmmaking
through this task?

5. Watch the scene from The Shining as a class twice Student will know:
- Post/hand out guiding questions for students to think - The use and effect of
about: different camera angles
a) How many shots are in this scene? and shots in a scene
b) What is the mood or atmosphere of this scene? What - How to apply knowledge
is the audience supposed to feel? to create a storyboard of
c) What dialogue or sound effects are there? a (scene in a) film
d) What are the different shot types used? Students will understand:
e) What camera angles are being used? - How camera angles and
f) What kind of motions do I need to incorporate into shots can help to create a
the storyboard (i.e. what movements is the camera mood in a film
doing)? - How storyboarding is used
(10-15 min) as a planning tool for a
film
Cross Curricular Competencies:
CCC3: Exercises critical judgement
 6. Work on storyboard for the remainder of the class (watch CCC4: Uses creativity
the clip from The Shining one more time before end of CCC5: Adopts effective work methods (in
class) progress)
(40-45 min)
Broad Areas of Learning:
Media Literacy

Universal Design for Learning:

Total lesson time: 75 minutes Guiding questions help keep students
focused and not overwhelmed. Clear
connection to final product ensures
relevance.
Further considerations:

FORMATIVE - Assessment FOR learning:

Students will receive feedback on their
designs/execution throughout the class as I
circulate through the room and talk with
each student.

FORMATIVE - Assessment AS learning:

SUMMATIVE - Assessment OF learning:

This class itself has no summative assessment,
however, the activity is an introduction and
practice session of the same storyboarding
they will have to do with a short story and,
after Christmas, when they film their own
short documentary.