Storyboarding is crucial to filmmaking. The storyboard is essential to the film’s bone structure. For us as filmmakers, whose focus is archival as well as artful, we use storyboarding to map our film’s design as well as its progress. It becomes a physical staging platform to display all of the film’s components, such as the film’s scope, style, segment breakdown and scheduling. We display layouts in a timeline, switching out in real time changes as needed. This method gives us a quick reference point, color keyed into a visual record of a film’s progress. We can then share our vision easily with our production team, producers and clients. Here’s an example of a storyboard of our most recent film. It shows the details of the film’s production development as it happens. For me, the heart of a film begins with the editing process in post-production. This is where the weaving of thousands of bits of information can be shaped into meaningful film moments. The storyboard helps me to gather all of the elements together into one place before I sit down to edit.