Storyboarding: planning your visual story

Brainstorm-
Before you start story boarding your animation, you need to brain storm,  write down your ideas in point form, doodle,
Write a Script-
Then write it out a script could be in paragraph or point form. It may be short, but it is a starting point to organize your thoughts.

Storyboard-
Then try to visually and roughly draw your idea in a storyboard. The essence of the story board it to organize your ideas, and to use it as a guide when putting your final piece together.

Some Storyboard Suggestions:

• Keep it simple, don't worry if you are not a great artist, you don't have to go into detail.
• Don not draw all of the frames. Only draw out key changes, significant changes in movement, or the story line.
• Draw in pencil, 
• Sometimes drawing a grid will give your frames depth.
• Give the basic essence of your story- beginning, middle/conflict, end resolutions

Storyboard from Wall-e