Drawingboards

In my N240 class, we had to do an exercise in teams, where we all took the same set of storyboard drawings and rearranged them to tell different story ideas. I found this to be a great way of brainstorming different possibilities within constraints. Upon first doing the activity, I was under the impression that there was a very limited number of possible storylines that can be derived from the drawings. It turns out that the mind can come up with truly crazy ideas from very ordinary looking storyboards. For example, a car driving on a road can actually be a car driving upside down through a futuristic highway. Of course, the number of different story ideas can be dictated by a person's imagination as well as the number of drawings present.