Extras

Here are some images and links related to a few of the items on our mid-term.
Throughout history storytellers have attempted to use visual images to illustrate their stories.

Bankelsanger literally means "bench singer." These German storytellers would use a small bench as a stage from which to direct listeners to their story boards.

Similarly the art of Kamishibai in Japan is based on telling stories to images.

Kamishibai in Japan, 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MahEbmc4CE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUAJIlJ4DOw




The modern use of storyboards in film-making is a direct descendant of these traditions. Storyboarding was first used as a cost effective way to pre-edit animated films by Walt Disney.