
Six up board sheet
Full storyboard sheet, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, laid out as six numbered frames in a two by three grid with a clear margin down the right side for handwritten notes. Each frame a quick sketch from a kitchen argument, a wide, two singles, an insert on a spilled cup, a reverse and a final wide. Frame numbers in the corner of each panel and short handwritten notes beside them, too small to read as words. A title block at the top of the sheet. 4:5.
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Three frame strip across a sheet
Storyboard strip of three separate ruled frames in a single row across the sheet, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour. Each frame a loose gestural sketch of the same figure crossing an empty car park, small in frame one, closer in frame two, close on their face in frame three. A straight arrow with a tail drawn over frame two showing the direction of travel. Handwritten in capitals under each frame, SC 12 and 2 SEC. Frames numbered 1, 2 and 3 in the top left corner of each. 16:9.
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Four frame pitch board for a commercial
Four frame commercial pitch board, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, drawn as one row of four ruled panels that read as a complete argument. Frame one a wide of a cyclist at dawn, frame two close on tired hands on the bars, frame three the summit and the view opening out, frame four a clean insert of a water bottle on the ground. Handwritten under each in capitals, 1 through 4 with 3 SEC beneath. A push in arrow on frame two. 4:3.
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Colour board with one accent
Storyboard colour frame, pencil under loose marker on white paper, the colour laid down quickly in broad strokes that run past the pencil lines and leave white paper showing at the edges. A hospital corridor drawn in cool grey green with one warm amber accent from a single lit doorway partway down. Ruled panel border. Deliberately unfinished, no blending and no detail. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, COLOUR and SC 44. 16:9.
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Establishing wide with a crane arrow
Wide establishing storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, of a valley with a farmhouse small in the middle distance and a ridge line behind. A long curved arrow drawn on top of the picture in the vertical plane, starting high at the top of the frame and sweeping down toward the farmhouse, marking a crane down. A small bracketed rectangle low in the frame showing the end position. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, SC 1 and 10 SEC. 16:9.
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Phone format ad board
Vertical storyboard sheet, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, of three tall ruled frames stacked down the page, each drawn in the phone format with a light dotted line ruled across the top sixth and the bottom sixth of every panel marking the safe area. A short story of a runner lacing a shoe, setting off, and stopping at a viewpoint, with all the staging kept between the dotted lines. Handwritten beside each in capitals, 1, 2 and 3 with 3 SEC. 9:16.
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Overhead plan with camera positions
Overhead storyboard floor plan of a small restaurant, drawn flat with no perspective in pencil on white paper. Walls as simple double lines, tables and chairs as plain outlines. Three numbered camera positions marked around the room as small triangles, each with a pale cone of view opening out across the space showing what that setup covers, labelled A, B and C. Two figures marked as circles with a short arrow showing where they move. Rough and hand drawn, no colour. 1:1.
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Line of action diagram
Overhead diagram drawn flat in pencil on white paper, showing two figures marked as circles facing each other with a long dashed line running straight through both of them. The area on one side of the dashed line lightly hatched to mark the permitted camera side, with three small camera triangles placed within it. One camera triangle drawn on the wrong side and struck through with a cross. Handwritten labels in capitals, A, B and X. Rough and hand drawn. 1:1.
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Doorway frame with a push-in arrow
Single storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour. A figure standing in a lit doorway seen from inside a dark room, sketched loosely in a few gestural strokes. A bold curved arrow drawn on top of the picture from the frame edge toward the figure, marking a slow push in, with a smaller rectangle bracketed inside the border showing where the move ends. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, SC 4A and 4 SEC. No speech balloons. 16:9.
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Value board in three greys
Storyboard value frame drawn in exactly three flat tones of grey marker on white paper and nothing else, no line shading and no fourth tone. A figure standing at the mouth of a tunnel, the figure left as the white of the paper, the tunnel walls in mid grey and the tunnel interior in the darkest grey. Ruled panel border. The tonal separation doing all the work of directing the eye. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, VALUE and SC 30. 16:9.
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Aerial descent over a coastline
High aerial storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, looking down at an angle over a rocky coastline with a small boat in the bay. A loose spiralling arrow drawn on top of the picture curling inward and downward toward the boat, marking a descending circling drone move. Cliffs and surf indicated with quick strokes. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, DRONE DESCEND and 14 SEC. 16:9.
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Corridor track with the rail marked
Storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, of a long hospital corridor in one point perspective with a figure walking away from camera. A long straight arrow drawn on top of the picture running down the corridor, and beneath it a second line drawn along the floor with short cross ticks marking a dolly rail. Doors receding on both sides, sketched fast. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, TRACK IN and 7 SEC. 16:9.
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Handheld frame with the wobble noted
Storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, but with the ruled panel border deliberately drawn twice in a loose shaky doubled line to mark the shot as handheld. Inside it, a figure pushing through a crowded market, other bodies cropped hard by the frame edges, drawn fast and gesturally. The horizon slightly off level. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, HANDHELD and 12 SEC. 5:4.
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Lighting plan with lamp symbols
Overhead lighting plan drawn flat in pencil on white paper, showing a small set from above with walls as double lines and a table in the middle. Four lamp positions marked as simple symbols around it, a filled circle, an open circle, a square and a triangle, each with a straight throw line running toward the table showing its direction. A key at the bottom of the sheet pairing each symbol with a short handwritten label. Camera position marked as a triangle. Rough, hand drawn, no colour. 1:1.
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Thumbnail pass, twelve tiny frames
Sheet of twelve very small storyboard thumbnails scribbled at speed in soft pencil on white paper, laid out in a rough grid of four by three. Each is barely more than a few marks establishing where a figure sits in the frame and where the horizon falls, with no facial features and no detail at all. Some frames overlap the ruled borders where the hand ran on. A few arrows scratched across individual frames. No sluglines. Loose, fast and unfinished. 5:4.
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Vertical action beat board
Vertical storyboard beat board, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, five ruled frames stacked down the sheet with deliberately uneven gaps between them so the spacing itself reads as timing. A rooftop chase, the beats being a leap, a slip, a hand catching an edge, a look down, and a pull up. Short handwritten durations beside each frame in capitals, 2 SEC, 1 SEC, 3 SEC. Loose gestural figures, no faces. 4:5.
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Music board with bar counts
Vertical music video storyboard, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, four ruled frames stacked down the sheet showing a singer moving through an empty warehouse. Timing written beside each frame in capitals as bar counts rather than seconds, reading BARS 1 TO 4, BARS 5 TO 8, BARS 9 TO 12 and BARS 13 TO 16. A short arrow on the second frame marking a slow push. Loose gestural figures with no facial detail. 4:5.
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Crash zoom with the end frame bracketed
Storyboard frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, of a wide shot across a dusty yard with a figure standing at the far fence. A small rectangle drawn inside the frame around the figure head, marked only with four corner brackets rather than a full box, showing where a fast zoom lands. Short radiating speed lines scribbled from the frame edges inward toward it. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, CRASH ZOOM and 1 SEC. 16:9.
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Shot and reverse on one page
Two storyboard frames side by side, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, drawn as a matched shot and reverse on a conversation across a table. In the left frame a near shoulder occupies the bottom left corner and the speaking figure sits right of centre. In the right frame the near shoulder is in the bottom right corner and the other figure sits left of centre, exactly mirrored. Handwritten under each, SC 7B and SC 7C. Small eyeline arrows drawn between them. 16:9.
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Blocking frame with numbered positions
Storyboard blocking frame, grey marker and pencil on white paper, ruled panel border, deliberately rough and disposable, construction lines left in, no inking and no colour, of a figure moving through a church interior, drawn three times in the same picture at three successive standing positions with a dotted line running between them showing the path. Each position marked with a small numbered circle, 1, 2 and 3. Pews and a window sketched loosely behind. The figure drawn as a simple gestural shape with no face. Handwritten under the frame in capitals, BLOCKING and SC 9. 4:5.
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