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It’s very helpful to create a storyboard of your presentations.  A storyboard is a sketch you can create on paper that shows a very rough description of what each scene or visual is, who’s in it, what’s going on, and how long it is.

You can also use something like MS Word to create a storyboard, although there are lots of specialized tools around to create storyboards specifically.  Some movie editors even include basic storyboarding applications.

Part of the value of creating a storyboard is that you can group scenes that need to be shot at a specific location or with specific props into one series of shoots.  Than later on you can edit them into their proper order within your video movie editor. 

Most video/movie editor software allows you to do what’s called “non-linear editing”, or NLE.  Non-linear editing is the ability to work with things out-of-order.  That doesn’t mean “broken” silly!  It means that you can shoot a bunch of scenes at, say, the park today and put them onto your hard disk.  Tomorrow you can shoot scenes at the track, and over the weekend you can get the last few scenes at the ball game.  After you’ve got them all, you can dump them all onto your disk and edit them as needed.

Usually your movie editing software will collect them all into one big box.  Then you need to simply drag them onto your timeline and drop them into whatever order you want them to be shown.  Having a storyboard that you’ve created first lets you not only plan what scenes you want to shoot where, but what order they need to go in after they’ve been shot.

Storyboards can be used whenever you’re creating a sequence of scenes that can be recorded in any order.  This even applies to audio-only presentations, like commercials, interviews, tutorials, etc.

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