<P> Gone with the Wind (1939) was one of the first live action films to be completely storyboarded . William Cameron Menzies, the film's production designer, was hired by producer David O. Selznick to design every shot of the film . </P> <P> Storyboarding became popular in live - action film production during the early 1940s and grew into a standard medium for previsualization of films . Pace Gallery curator Annette Micheloson, writing of the exhibition Drawing into Film: Director's Drawings, considered the 1940s to 1990s to be the period in which "production design was largely characterized by adoption of the storyboard". Storyboards are now an essential part of the creative process . </P> <P> A film storyboard, commonly known as a shooting board, is essentially a series of frames, with drawings of the sequence of events in a film, like a comic book of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand . It helps film directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur . Besides this, storyboards also help estimate the cost of the overall production and saves time . Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement . For fast - paced action scenes, monochrome line art might suffice . For slower - paced dramatic films with emphasis on lighting, color impressionist style art might be necessary . </P> <P> In creating a motion picture with any degree of fidelity to a script, a storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens . And in the case of interactive media, it is the layout and sequence in which the user or viewer sees the content or information . In the storyboarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film or interactive media project can be efficiently described either in picture or in additional text . </P>

What is the name of the drawings created as part of a storyboard