Purpose
The purpose of a storyboard is to organise the ideas that have been generated by the group. It acts as a detailed timeline for what will happen in the narrative, making it much easier to work efficiently. A storyboard is the reference that is used during filming so that eveyone knows what shots need to be filmed and where.
Task and Challenges
Personally, I organised the order of the shots that had been thought of. The juxtaposition of each shot in relation to others is very important and took quite a long time. The biggest challenge in completing the storyboard was thinking up enough ideas to fill the 2 minutes that our opening sequence must be, but with lots of thought, we managed to sequence enough shots, ending with a total of 35.
How useful was the Storyboard?
During our first shoot, the storyboard was actually very helpul, as it gave us all the initial ideas that we had as a starting point for our filming. We did deviate from it somewhat as being on location presented new ideas, but having a storyboard I feel would always be a great advantage over not having one.
I'd agree with the point about the storyboard being a good guide to what shots we need and how long they need to be. I feel that for this reason, the storyboard saves a lot of time even if we don't stick to it exactly.
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