Storyboarding Layouts

[JohnReid]

I have some experience in storyboarding dioramas that would also apply to RR layouts.Please let me explain.

[JohnReid]

Simply put storyboarding is much like taking a walking or bus tour through your own layout or diorama,snapping pictures or videos along the way and listening to a narrator pointing out things of interest .Tourists have been seeing the sights this way for years.People just enjoy hearing or telling stories.With all the modern technology that we have today its very easy to add this kind of thing to your layout or diorama.

I got into this type of thing because I had to find a way to make my dioramas more interesting to the public.Up until now I have only used a digital camera to take pictures in a predetermined sequence to tell a mostly visual story.I am presently working on the narrative to go with each picture.

My present layout with the "old west "theme should be very easy to storyboard as long as I plan for it ahead of time, which basically means I can't put anything down permanently until all the pictures have been taken.The sequence that I am planning would be the logical way a kid may walk through a theme park letting his visual interest led the way.For instance the present entrance to the park is just in front of the G scale locomotive which any kid would want to check out first, then the tender and so on and on....

Why bother to take the time to do all this ? Well it may be the only record your friends and family will ever have about how much your hobby meant to you and what an interesting personal story it has to tell for  future generations.

[JohnReid]

Hi everybody ! Great day today as my wife will soon be home after her second knee replacement surgery .Everything went well.  I will be re-focusing my energy for awhile now to help to nurse her back to health.I am planning to spend the time I have now concentrating on storyboarding and a little research.
The "Once upon a time.... diorama is going well but I have changed my mind again and am going back to the original concept of a movie set.I think that it is better to tell one story well than get things too confusing for the viewer.I know that it seems that I can't make up my mind, and your right about that, but that is the fun of doing this in real time rather than presenting a competed piece  and then pretending that I knew where I was going all the time.
Cheers ! John.