Storyboarding

From watching videos on how to create a perfect storyboard for my animation for instance, there are a few rules that I picked up that need to be considered:

• 180 degree rule - keep everything in one direction
• Have to have meaning behind each shot
• Identify with the character - so he matters
• Angles and comparison - how to show it?
• Upshots - show ceiling (or something that uses the background)
• Downshots - showing the floor to represent
• Establishing the shot - beginning of the scene to orient the audience
• Give the eye something to follow
• Cut in closer when you need to see a specific expression
• Cut to the most important thing at the time
• See the change in expression - 2 poses
• Avoid centring characters
• Use easily recognisable objects