Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. Storyboard software lets you to design storyboards easily and sequence them to tell the story.
Here are some free Storyboard software that lets you to design storyboards easily:
1. StoryBoard Pro Software
StoryBoard Pro is a free software is a software designed by Atomic Learning’s to give teachers, students, and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects. Here are some of the key features of the software.
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Enter shot titles and descriptions, complete with planned lengths and edited order.
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Indicate shot types: video, still, audio, music, or titles.
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Enter film tips for your camera person when videotaping the shot and editing tips to be used when editing in iMovie, Movie Maker 2, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or any other editor of your choice.
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Import existing video clips, still pictures, and sounds to better illustrate each shot.
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Create, save, and import templates for video projects.
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Print copies of your storyboard for use while filming or editing.
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Print blank storyboard worksheets for brainstorming new ideas.
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NEW: Shot tips that link to online Atomic Learning Library sample video clips
2. Storyboard Tools
Storyboard Tools is for film-makers, directors & storyboard artists who want to storyboard a movie on a PC in a manageable way. ST stores all the images together as one file and prints the images in a format portable enough to be taken on set. You can draw or import images, arrange them, give them captions, numbers and additional information, view them in sequence with editing effects and generate a web-page.
3. Springboard
Springboard is a fast, light, easy-to-use Windows application for easily and quickly sketching and annotating your storyboard ideas for film, video, animation, or other dynamic media. Work with story outlines, scene images, shot descriptions, and visual annotations to show camera movements, special effects, etc. Set shot durations and view animatics. Use it to plan your work on-screen, print, or export to many formats to show others.
4. SLang – story development freeware
SLang is story-development software. It allows you to write events for your story as "virtual index cards" and print them out.
Here are some of the features of my story development software, known as SLang:
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Ideal for brain-storming story ideas.
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Ideal for story writers who don’t quite know where they want their story to go.
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Ideal for writing "whodunnit" stories or "adventure" type stories where there may be alternative "routes".
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Can export to my screenwriting software, ScriptMaker (with version 1.6 of SLang upwards)
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Stores your story as "events" and "themes".
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Print events/themes out on index cards.
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Events viewed as separate windows.
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Artificial Intelligence features.
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Export whole story to RTF or TXT file.
