storyboard

English

Etymology

From story +‎ board.

Noun

storyboard (plural storyboards)

1. A series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film or series, especially an animated one.
   • The storyboard process helps promote brainstorming, highlights missing tasks, and allows the team to incorporate changes prior to traveling too far down a particular path. — By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley, NASA & SAIC here
2. Any sequence of drawings or diagrams which illustrate a sequence of events, e.g. in an accident or as a flowsheet for computer programming.

Translations

series of drawings for a film

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分鏡圖／分镜图 (fēnjìngtú), 分鏡／分镜 (fénjìng), 情節串連圖板／情节串连图板 (qíngjié chuànlián túbǎn)

• Finnish: kuvakäsikirjoitus
• Hungarian: képes forgatókönyv
• Japanese: 絵コンテ (ekonte)
• Malay: papan cerita
• Russian: раскадро́вка (ru) f (raskadróvka)

any sequence of drawings

Verb

storyboard (third-person singular simple present storyboards, present participle storyboarding, simple past and past participle storyboarded)

1. To create and arrange storyboard drawings.

   Storyboarding allows students to work together as they generate ideas and eliminates the territorial defensiveness that often occurs when new ideas are suggested. — "Using Storyboarding to Determine components of Dellness for University Students" J Am Coll Health. 1996 Jan;44(4):180-3 Abstract

Spanish

Noun

storyboard m (plural storyboards)

1. storyboard