Storyboards

W00DY

Hi All,

I have a client who wants three storyboard prints but I am unsure on the measurements required for them.

The client wants two 8x10 storyboards and then one with the middle image as a 8x12.

The dimensions for the 8x10's are:

31''x17'' - This gives each image 8''x10'' with a 1'' gap between them and then a 2.5'' gap from the top and sides and a 4.5'' gap at the bottom which is the matting (the extra .5'' was for the framing)

The dimensions for the 8x12 are:

31''x15'' - This gives the middle image 8''x12'' and the side images 8''x6'' with a 1'' gap between them and then a 2.5'' gap from the top and sides and a 4.5'' gap at the bottom which is the matting (the extra .5'' was for the framing)

Do these dimensions sound right to you?

What storyboards do you offer and what are the dimensions?

I spent way too long thinking about this and should have just posted here first :rofl

Cheers.

urbanaries

I offer two sizes of storyboards, having the client dictate the sizes of the photos is just too much of a headache. I offer them in standard frame sizes (or at least the option of one).

10x20 with 3 5x7s in it..I just measured the padding space by eye and it came out great.

a 20x20 (also doubles as a "standard frame" 12x12) with 16 3x3 square images. I purchased this template from Design Aglow.

~Jan~

I will let a client dictate the overall dimensions of a storyboard, but not the sizes w/in. They can tell me which they want larger, or smaller, but being so precise makes it hard on you!

I highly recommend a program called Fotofusion: http://www.lumapix.com/web_downloads/downloads_currentversion.shtml

It makes creating storyboards a 5-minute process.

W00DY

Thanks for the replies... I ill check out Fotofusion.

The client has not specified the dimensions, the dimensions above were what I came up with. They just want 8x10 images in them (which was my suggestion anyway).

Were I am stuck on is the dimensions for the matting, I have no idea how much space to print around the images.

~Jan~

W00DY wrote:

Thanks for the replies... I ill check out Fotofusion.

The client has not specified the dimensions, the dimensions above were what I came up with. They just want 8x10 images in them (which was my suggestion anyway).

Were I am stuck on is the dimensions for the matting, I have no idea how much space to print around the images.

Oh, that makes more sense then. Still I think it's easier to pick the dimensions of the storyboard first. It's much hard to work with trying to fit images in there. If they are approximately 8x10 size, that's good enough--they don't need to be exact as long as they are all the same size, KWIM. The important thing is that the original storyboard is something framable, or else you are looking at additional custom framing costs (unless you are ordering this premounted).