DCD Lesson 4A: Storyboards are essential!

If PIXAR can rewrite and re-storyboard Finding Nemo (after 4 years) and Toy Story 2 (after three years), why can’t we reimagine or rethink the visuals and flow in our lessons / courses?

Great lessons are great stories

Ancestral groups / tribes used storytelling — sometimes only voice and sometimes with drums and/or flutes etc — around the fire to pass on knowledge [facilitate learning] for thousands of generations.

Great lessons have some element of storytelling. It might be the content, it might be little excerpts from your own or others experiences, it might be an entire story. How is storytelling of words or visuals integrated into your lessons?

We all know ‘talking head’ lessons are boring as hell. The mere action of combining visuals with your narration precipitates the need for some form of storyboarding. I decided to try something different with the DCD course.

3rd Party storyboards

I have loved messing with videos all the way back to the huge VHS machines of the mid 80s. However, I usually just shot what I thought was interesting. Even my early YT vids visually sucked, even though it was great content. Since Covid (extra time at home during covid in Thailand) I started to look at lessons more like mini…