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A comic strip that argues with directors before the cameras can.
means A sequence of drawn panels that maps out a film, ad, or app screen by screen before anyone starts shooting or building.
from Coined at Walt Disney Studios in the early 1930s, where animators pinned sketches of successive scenes onto large boards to plan cartoons scene-by-scene — literally a 'board' of a 'story.' The technique proved so useful for planning shots and pacing that it spread beyond animation into live-action film, advertising, and eventually software and UX design.
- origin
- Disney popularized it for animation in the 1930s
- purpose
- Cheapest way to fail fast before filming
- secret
- Sells the vision more than it plans the shots
- irony
- Often abandoned the moment filming actually starts