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Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach

A storyboard is essentially a timeline going from top to bottom, with the top occurring first. It is an expression of everything or even a rough sketch that will be contained in the program telling where the menu screens in a computer interface will look like, what pictures either still or moving wi...

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Main Authors: Abd Rahim, Normaliza, Mansor, Noraien, Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah, Sujud, Arbaie, Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa, Yunus, Norzita, Yacob, Yazariah
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Published: Journal of the World Universities Forum 2009
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spelling my.upm.eprints.58142015-11-27T03:57:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5814/ Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach Abd Rahim, Normaliza Mansor, Noraien Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah Sujud, Arbaie Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa Yunus, Norzita Yacob, Yazariah A storyboard is essentially a timeline going from top to bottom, with the top occurring first. It is an expression of everything or even a rough sketch that will be contained in the program telling where the menu screens in a computer interface will look like, what pictures either still or moving will be seen when and for how long, what audio and text will accompany the images, either synchronously or hyperlinked or in other words allows us to see what the scene will look like. Typically, storyboards may be written documents and off-the-shelf storyboard pads for TV and video formats, adaptable for multimedia. The storyboard expresses, in one way or another, everything that can be seen or heard or experienced by the end-user of the multimedia program. It is more than a test-of-concept model, and just short of the final product specification document. Therefore, this paper investigates the content of discussion during storyboard writing and to investigate the meaning of the discussion. Five pairs of subjects were involved in this study. A task was given to each pair and the length of time for them to discuss about the layout and the content of the storyboard was 3 hours for each pair. The discussion will be taped and analyzed accordingly. The subjects were adult learners involved in a Language and Multimedia course ages between 33-40 years old, six female and four male. The subjects had no experience in storyboard writing. This paper uses the relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson 1985), an inferential approach to pragmatics. Journal of the World Universities Forum 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5814/1/Storyboard%20writing%20and%20adult%20learners.pdf Abd Rahim, Normaliza and Mansor, Noraien and Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah and Sujud, Arbaie and Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa and Yunus, Norzita and Yacob, Yazariah (2009) Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach. Journal of The World Universities Forum, 2 (3). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1835-2030 http://wuj.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.173/prod.152 English
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description A storyboard is essentially a timeline going from top to bottom, with the top occurring first. It is an expression of everything or even a rough sketch that will be contained in the program telling where the menu screens in a computer interface will look like, what pictures either still or moving will be seen when and for how long, what audio and text will accompany the images, either synchronously or hyperlinked or in other words allows us to see what the scene will look like. Typically, storyboards may be written documents and off-the-shelf storyboard pads for TV and video formats, adaptable for multimedia. The storyboard expresses, in one way or another, everything that can be seen or heard or experienced by the end-user of the multimedia program. It is more than a test-of-concept model, and just short of the final product specification document. Therefore, this paper investigates the content of discussion during storyboard writing and to investigate the meaning of the discussion. Five pairs of subjects were involved in this study. A task was given to each pair and the length of time for them to discuss about the layout and the content of the storyboard was 3 hours for each pair. The discussion will be taped and analyzed accordingly. The subjects were adult learners involved in a Language and Multimedia course ages between 33-40 years old, six female and four male. The subjects had no experience in storyboard writing. This paper uses the relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson 1985), an inferential approach to pragmatics.
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author Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah
Sujud, Arbaie
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
Yunus, Norzita
Yacob, Yazariah
spellingShingle Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah
Sujud, Arbaie
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
Yunus, Norzita
Yacob, Yazariah
Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
author_facet Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Nik Affendi, Nik Rafidah
Sujud, Arbaie
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
Yunus, Norzita
Yacob, Yazariah
author_sort Abd Rahim, Normaliza
title Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
title_short Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
title_full Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
title_fullStr Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
title_full_unstemmed Storyboard writing and adult learners: A pragmatic approach
title_sort storyboard writing and adult learners: a pragmatic approach
publisher Journal of the World Universities Forum
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