Meaning & use
storyboard
A sequence of drawings that outlines the scenes of a film, video, or animation before production.
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The director reviewed the storyboard with the crew before filming the chase scene.
She sketched a rough storyboard to plan out the commercial shot by shot.
A note on using this word
Storyboard is now also used outside filmmaking to describe planning any sequence of events, such as a user's journey through an app.
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