Figure 1: This Peanuts comic strip was released on November 19, 1961, as one of the newspaper’s themes. Comic strips from the modern era can be found in most magazines and newspapers. They are normally printed in colour on Sundays and in black and white on Monday through Saturday in newspaper editions. (Norman Rockwell Museum, n.d.)
The cartoon shows a boy who dislikes eating lunch because he is forced to sit by himself while other kids play, which makes him feel lonely. He also tells himself, though, that he wishes kids would invite him to play with them so he won’t be alone.This comic encourages the reader to purchase the following issue of the newspaper in order to find out whether the boy will make friendships.
Storyboard
Figure 2 : The narrative sequence can brighten someone’s day who is having a poor day in addition to showing something serious. Tom and Jerry, which utilises little explanation but primarily relies on imagery to tell the plot, is an example of a humorous storyboard. The storyboard describes how Jerry’s relative, who took care of the little orphans, gave him the responsibility for their care. The second and third rows highlight how the little orphan attempts to eat the orange that gets stuck and the turkey that is consumed at the speed of light. The relative also mentioned the little orphan’s insatiable appetite. (Luke Leightfield, Boards, 11 August 2022)
Sequential photography
Figure 3 : Duane Michals, a French photographer, took these series of images to demonstrate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which looks at the fuzziness in nature. A woman is holding a magic mirror that distorts her face; when she looks in one direction, her face expands and some parts of it start to stretch out. As she rotates the mirror from side to side, the woman can be seen looking into the glass and seeing her stretched-out face. In order to put an end to the trip of face distortion, the story concludes with a woman looking at the photographer with her cheek towards the mirror. (Kate Andreasson, Guardian, 26 February 2015)
My Storyboard
This storyboard discusses the value of taking someone else’s recommendations because everyone sees things differently. So the story begins with someone taking care of and tending to the plant. Then he runs into his friend, who is worried about how the plant seems, which greatly frightened the individual. After giving it some thought, his companion handed him the book “How To Grow Healthy Plants?” from his rucksack. The book and the group activities helped the plant grow strong and huge. Instead of using colour, the entire storyboard used a greyscale to refer back to the examples mentioned above which had a very effective use of black and white.
Luke Leighfield, Boards, 11 August 2022. 28 Storyboard Examples to Inspire you [Online] (n.d.) Availiable at: https://boords.com/storyboard-examples [Accessed in 20 October 2022]
