Oct 18, 2025  
2025-2026 CNM Catalog, Volume 57 
    
2025-2026 CNM Catalog, Volume 57

FDMA 2381 - Storyboarding

2 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite: FDMA 1620  
Pre- or corequisite: FDMA 2215  + FDMA 1550  + FDMA 1410  + FDMA 1994  
Examines effective writing principles to create storyboards that communicate the overall picture of a project, timing, scene complexity, emotion and resource requirements. Further, the purpose of this course is to introduce students to the principles of visual storytelling—in film–through the use of the storyboard. In other words, to show how storyboards are a critical “architectural component” of the filmmaking process, used as a blueprint (or guide) to communicate the complex elements of a film story.

Note(s):

Theory Hours: 15
Studio Hours: 30