Don't have hardley any Microsoft programs - I was thinking about content not form but thanks anyway

//Garo

I guess it's a personal thing.
Some will go up to the point of noting filters, lenses (if you can switch some), lighting notes, all the different technical details one might think of.
Some others will just make drawings to visually "see" what they're going to shoot in advance (and be sure they do not forget a shot ).
Some will add just a few pointers like: "swish pan", "cozy ambiance", "stressed", or anything you can think of.

You can think of it like a cartoon... and you have choice to elaborate more or less.

Check out Storyboard Wizard. It's part of Neon.

Gary

It isn't clear whether you have already shot the wedding or whether you are going to shoot it.

When storyboarding for a corporate shoot, we use a still camera on location, with a couple of crew for stand in, so we can show the client what we have in mind. This also lets us see the quality of light on location, and any problems we may have to deal with: ugly signs, unwanted light fixtures, expanses of windows that have to be gelled, etc. We then sequence these shots into a storyboard, either looking at them in a computer program like ThumbsPlus or printing each as a thumbnail and pasting them onto sheets.

I've never used a storyboard for a wedding shoot, relying instead on a mental check list of shots required by the bride and shots required by us to make a clean edit, based on what we've seen at the rehearsal. I guess you could think of this as a mental storyboard, since we talk through what shots each camera will get, and consider problems of audio, lighting, white balance, etc., and make notes for each camera operator.

If the wedding has already been shot, it sounds like you're going to use the storyboard like an edit decision list. Gary's suggestion is right on: the utility in Neon would let you go through the footage, pull out stills and sequence them as needed. You could then add notes regarding duration of clips, transitions, color correction needs, etc.

Without Neon or PowerPoint, which can be used in much the same manner, I'd create a storyboard that looked like an EDL. I would have each cell indicate time code for the in and out points of the clip; video and audio quality (and whether this would be an audio or video only clip); comments regarding direction of gaze, movement, zoom, etc.; and a quick sketch of the contents of the shot. I don't draw very well, so I use stick figures or even just circles with an arrow for the nose to indicate the basic composition of the clip.

I've found that so-called "photojournalistic" wedding footage usually has its own built in story line: people show up at the wedding venue, the bride walks down the aisle, everybody goes off and parties, etc. All that's necessary is to cull out the bad shots and add music. That's an over simplification, of course, but my point is that this doesn't call for much storyboarding.

So-called "short form" weddings, where the story may be told in a non-linear manner, require much more decision making vis a vis shot sequence. Here, I use the timeline of Vegas like a storyboard. I lay down the entire tape on track two of the timeline, then start copying clips up to track one. As I work through the master track, clips begin to group themselves on the edit track. In a way, I'm doing on the timeline what happens if you sort into bins in the Media Pool. On the timeline, though, I can see the overall sequencing clearly.

I find that by "storyboarding" this way I can begin to feel a flow in the shots -- groupings that are similar in composition or movement or thematically start coming together. By the time I'm through, I've got a rough cut of the entire wedding day pulled up onto track one.

I do the same kind of "storyboarding" on the timeline with audio, too, since I often separate the audio from the video in a "short form" wedding edit.

I hope this helps.

Jack