Building a Story Board

For this assignment you need to provide an outline and a plan for the video you create next week as the final part of this project. You are not actually making the video yet! Your ultimate goal is to make a 2-3 minute video highlighting your species and its habitat in the LA River and the impact of the proposed habitat restoration on this species.

Include the following elements (though you may change the ) and the content that will go with them. Consider how the elements fit together to create a video with good flow — it should proceed logically, so you should think how they go together as a set and how you will transition between topics. Feel free to include other fun and interesting facts about your species.

Required Elements – Content

Please note: These are the required elements, but you will need to include more information about your species, its biology and its presence in the Los Angeles River to provide context and make your video engaging.

1. Common and Scientific name of your species
2. NATIVE SPECIES – Skip if you have an Introduced species
   1. Current status of your species both locally and globally (including if it is a species of conservation concern) and what factors have contributed to its status
   2. The two restoration actions that you chose, and an explanation of how each of these actions would benefit your species. You should reference specific aspects of the species biology and ecology from your Individual Species Research Discussion.
3. INTRODUCED SPECIES – Skip if you have a native species and did #2
   1. What would be the benefits for the LA River ecosystem if your species would be removed?
   2. What would be two costs to the LA River ecosystem if your species would be removed?
   3. You should reference specific aspects of the species biology and ecology from your Individual Species Research Discussion.
4. Credits:
   1. Citations
   2. Attributions (like a citation for images and videos) for any images you use. (Some of the video creators such as Adobe Spark will make this for you automatically if you use images from their library). If you are making them yourself, Open Washington has an easy to use attribution builder (Links to an external site.) that I suggest you use.

REQUIRED ELEMENTS – VISUALS

What visuals or images will you use to communicate about your species in the LA River? Your video must have a minimum of 5 images.

• One of the images is required to be a graph of iNaturalist data from the Biodiversity and the Revitalization of the LA River.
• Suggestions for additional images:
  • Maps
  • iNaturalist distributions
  • Images of the species and/or the species that it interacts with
  • Images of habitat
  • Images of the LA River

REQUIRED ELEMENTS – VOICE OVER

At least 50% of your video needs to have a voice over. Put into your outline which sections you are planning to do voice overs for. You can include a description of what you will say or the actual script.

REQUIRED – INCORPORATING FEEDBACK

• What feedback have you received on previous LA River assignments?
• How will you be incorporating this feedback into your video? Do you have corrections that you will need to make to your graphs, maps, or contents? Be specific and explain how you can use this feedback to improve your final video.

Submission Guidelines

Upload a pdf that includes your story board (with descriptions of the content, visuals and voice-over elements) and a paragraph describing how you will incorporate feedback from previous assignments.

Here is an example of how you can format your storyboard, but note that it is not a complete storyboard!