April 1, 2009

Create your own mini-storyboard

by Cliff Atkinson

BBP reader Lee Adams passed on this great tip:

There is a website called pocketmod.com which allows you to make and print a very small notebook from a single sheet of A4 (letter-size) paper. You get 8 sections to put different designs on (grid, lines, schedule etc.) and one of the designs is a storyboard layout (within the “Writing Guides” folder).

So I almost exclusively use the storyboard template on all 8 pages. This gives me a small booklet with 8 pages (5 first slides and 3 key  points) each with space for a slide design and a few lines to write on, which I use to design my BBP presentations.

I gave it a try, and it took a few minutes to figure out how to fold it properly, but once I created the booklet it was a great little tool.  Have you tried something like this?  Let us know!