how do you make a storyboard for like a book?

Answer 1

simplify the story. find out what the introduction, plot, climax, conclusion, and map it out on rectangles from left to right. draw pictures and use text to describe what the action is in each scene. :)

Answer 2

The question is a little puzzlling. I am very familiar with story boards. I have done several for animated and live action shorts.

That's why I am confused. Storyboards are use to set up visual references for film, not for books. A storyboard is like a comic book version of a movie, showing the action and camera angles the director intends to use.

I also write short stories. For these, I will draw up an OUTLINE, which is a quick, abbreviated list of plot lines, scenes and sequences, which are later fleshed out, rearranged and written out in it's final form. This text outline functions very much like a storyboard does for a film.

Outline is text.

Storyboard is pictures.

Answer 3

A story board is comprised of pictures and text. the pictures are laid out like a comic book strip, usually with the text underneath. The pictures are used to indicate key scenes (the main events for lack of a better description) in the "story" and, very rarely, transitions. Go here http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_3.html
for more detailed information.
And the link below is a picture sample of what it may look like completed.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.vintageip.com/pics/terms-storyboard-big.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.vintageip.com/terms-storyboard.html&h=345&w=425&sz=67&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=wN8OfWoKkRI2uM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstoryboard%2B%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DSUNA,SUNA:2006-05,SUNA:en%26sa%3DX

Answer 4

You lost me....are you making an illustrated book, like a children's book? Why not just format a Word (or other DTP) document to the book's final size, type out the wording, then print it out in thumbnail mode? Then you could do rough sketches of the pictures you want to put in, and figure it out from there....