Year 3 Digital Storyboard (Teacher Notes)
Pupil Activity Code: DSQ7 – What is it?
Progression of skills in this pack
1. Add and edit backgrounds.
2. Add and edit characters, including changing posture, expression and clothing.
3. Add narration and speech bubbles, including formatting text.
4. Duplicate objects to match scenes.
5. Search for objects to use.
National Curriculum Content
Select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals.
1 Hour +
What will teachers and pupils need?For the activities below; pupils will need access to the StoryboardThat. This website is paid but includes a free 14 day trial where teachers can create an account and then create student logins, either manually or using Google Classroom etc. There are details about this here. The 14 day trial should allow teachers to use it for around 2 lessons if the accounts are made shortly before the first lesson. There is a small charge per month after 14 days.
Teacher input
The pupil pack (included below) starts with a video introducing the skills taught in this pack, including the importance of planning films etc using storyboards.
Differentiation
This pack is very much an extension of the Year 3 Comic Creation Activity Pack as it covers many of the same skills but the tools have more options, including more options for changing the appearance of characters etc.
Pupil Activity Pack (Teacher view)
1. Introduction
Watch this video to learn why we use storyboards and the skills we will learning in this pack.
2. Backdrops
This video covers how to add backdrops to your scenes and edit them, including changing the weather and lighting. The video covers the traditional layout of scenes (3 on a page). You can choose this layout by selecting the Layout button when you first go to the website and then Traditional Layout.
Tip! If you make a mistake, use the undo arrow at the bottom of the screen.
3. Characters
Watch this video to learn how to add a character and adjust its size, position, look and posture.
4. Narration
Use this video to learn how to add a text box to write some narration and adjust the size, colour and style lot the text.
5. Duplicate
Watch the video to learn how to duplicate backdrops, characters and text to speed up creating scenes.
6. Search for objects
This video demonstrates how to search for objects to add to your scenes.
7. Speech Bubbles
This video covers many of the skills to add a new scene and also use speech bubbles between two characters.
✅ Assessment
Saving is only available when with a StoryboardThat account (there is a free trial available). Other than that, pupils can save their storyboards as a screenshot. This could then be inserted into a Word document or saved to a pupil work folder. Click the blue links below to learn how to do this on your school devices.
Windows PC
Chromebook
iPad
Mac
On a Windows PC, pupils can press the Print Screen key, which puts the screen into the clipboard and then could be pasted into Word or PowerPoint etc. Alternatively pupils could print their storyboards direct from their browser, such as Chrome and Safari on iPad. Finally, the storyboards do save in the browser’s cache. This means if a pupil returns to the same computer they previously used, when they open up StoryboardThat, it will ask them if they want to resume a previous storyboard.