Free template
You do not need to draw well to storyboard well. A storyboard’s job is to answer three questions before the set does: what is in the frame, where is the camera, and what moves. Stick figures answer all three.
This template gives you 16:9 frames — the aspect ratio you are almost certainly shooting — six per page with a shot label and two caption lines each, as a print-ready PDF.
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Boarding every scene of a dialogue drama is procrastination with a pencil. Board what is expensive to get wrong: stunts, VFX plates, crowd scenes, company-move days, complex blocking, and anything involving a picture vehicle, an animal, or a child. Simple shot-reverse-shot coverage is better served by the shot list alone.
The test: if two crew members could reasonably imagine this shot differently, board it. If nobody could, don’t.
Paper boards are perfect for thinking. Distribution is where they fail — photographing pages, mismatched versions, no link to the schedule. In Production Slate you attach storyboard frames directly to shots, view them in a lightbox on set from any phone, and export four print layouts (2×3 and 2×2 portrait, 3×2 and 2×2 landscape) that keep every frame 16:9.
No. Storyboards communicate framing, position, and movement — stick figures with correct composition beat beautiful drawings with vague composition every time.
Match your delivery format. This template is 16:9, the standard for almost all digital video. If you shoot 2.39:1, mark the letterbox inside the frames.
The expensive-to-get-wrong ones: action, stunts, VFX, crowds, complex camera moves, and any setup where two people could imagine the shot differently. Simple dialogue coverage rarely needs boards.
Production Slate attaches storyboard frames to shots, shows them on set from any phone, and prints four PDF layouts.
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