Other forms: storyboards
A storyboard is a sequence of drawings planning each shot. Draw the storyboard, storyboard the sequence, a storyboard artist.
It lets a director find the problems before anything is filmed, which is far cheaper than finding them on the day. Disney developed the technique in the 1930s, and advertising and video games use it as heavily as film does.
1nounstoryboardA sequence of drawings planning each shot.
“The director sketched a storyboard showing every scene of the advert.”
storyboard is a plan.
Story plus board, from the Disney animation studios of the 1930s.
From story + board.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA