2.5 Storyboarding your presentation

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• by Approachable Design ()
• (including templates you can use for your own story board) by Canva ()
• by LinkedIn Learning

This assignment helps you plan your presentation and think through what content and structure will work best for your specific audience. A storyboard is a kind of visual outline used in all sorts of professions, but most often for film and other audio-visual mediums (like workplace presentations) because they allow you to make important decisions before you’ve recorded a bunch of audio or video.

The visual outline you create for this assignment will also serve as a “rough draft” of your presentation that you can receive feedback on, prior to recording your presentation.

Submission

You may use any application or platform to create your storyboard. I recommend you outline your slides using PowerPoint, but I’ve also included instructions for Canva and for drawing by hand.

At minimum, your storyboard must include:

• a visual preview of 5-10 slides, whether that slide contains text, images, or data visualizations. For visual elements you haven’t created or found yet, you can simply describe what would be on that slide (“a detailed diagram of a turboencabulator,” for example) or sketch them out
• what you’ll say when each slide is being presented. This might look like a script of every single word you want to say or a brief list of the important points and topics you want to be sure to cover, as you see in the example above. If you plan on including music or sound effects, you can mention those details in your storyboard as well.

Don’t worry if the finished storyboard isn’t a perfect artistic statement. Storyboards for films often include only rough sketches or stick-figure drawings of the eventual scenes, simply so others can understand what the finished product might look like. The ideas and information you include now will allow your instructor and peers to give you constructive feedback and ask helpful questions, before you do the more involved work of recording your presentation. If your storyboard is “rough” or “unfinished” or “simple,” that’s not unexpected, as long as the people who see it can understand what you’re planning to do.

To make sure you’re including the required project elements, return to the and review the guidelines for content. You can create your storyboard however you like, even by hand, but please upload your storyboard toPresentation Project Storyboard to Canvas as a PDF, PowerPoint, or Word Document.

Note: If you created your storyboard by hand, use the following tool to convert your image file (jpg, bmp, png, etc.) to a PDF: JPG to PDF Converter.

The website to link is