Storyboard a video project 

Create a video is a very interesting task for children. With these kinds of activities, students are going to increase their creativity, imagination, language and communicative skills. Most of the time, these tasks are performing in groups, which is why they are also going to work on cooperative and collaborative skills. they are a kind of role-playing where students are going to feel and think like other people, which is also a crucial fact to develop in young learners. 

The first step to creating a video is thinking about what this video is going to be about. Children must do brainstorming to share their ideas, and then choose one that everybody agrees with. 

After that, it is time to do the script to order the characters´ different ideas, settings, and dialogues. Also, we can include explanations and the words that the narrator would say. There are different ways for preparing the script, however, we decided to use "Storyboard that" for planing our video. If you want to know more about this tool check my post "The benefits of comics in education".  

To finish, let me present our work. In the picture below you can see a storyboard that we created to organize the ideas of our video. It consists of 3x2 comic strips which is a free option in the application. The theme of our video is "The middle ages". We want to do a comparison between how we live nowadays and how people lived many centuries ago. 

 

 Do you want to watch the video? You will do it in the next post...

To be continued... 👋