Storyboards?

I'm taking a film directing class and my latest assignment is to create a storyboard for a short scene. That got me to wondering: do any of y'all plan your videos using storyboards? I haven't in the past, but I can certainly see where it would help pre-visualize some of my ideas.

I write scenes down in notepad using my special shorthand.
Normally, I can remember what I had in mind for a scene with just one or two key words.

I listen to music until I find one that fits the mood of the story I'm trying to develop.. As I listen to the music the events of a story start to unfold, thus allowing me to visualize the scene that would best fit with the mood of the music. I can listen to a song over and over again till I have the story complete in my mind from point A to Point B. For specific scenes I might draw stick figures to set camera angles since I can't draw worth a damn. Here's an example of my directing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4JTbArmNRU , I had some frame rate issues due to the upload on youtube.

LOL - I am actually using CoH screenshots from demos to make that storyboard for my class. I just apply the "Find All Edges" effect to the color image and it looks a lot like a sketch. Beats my crappy stick drawings!

My video, O Wretched Man, was roughly storyboarded but with stick figures as well, since I can't draw either.

My version of storyboarding probably doesn't look like anything the pros do, and was more back of the napkin style. Broke it down into scenes, with descriptions of what was happening within, a few stick figures showing who goes where and what.

Mostly it was just to have a guideline to follow when struggling to make the demoedits from scratch. The camera angles were mostly by experimentation. I was going for proof-of-concept by demoediting the entire scene's animation by hand.

In retrospect, I would be a little looser on where the scenes started and ended, as I had practically nothing to cut during the video edit stage, and ended up speeding up and slowing down clips to fit the music, praying it wouldn't be too disruptive.

Mine are a combination of screencaptures, timecodes, and cast/camera notes. For example, here's some of my storyboarding for "History in the Making":

SEGMENT:
Caption: Rularuu Trapped in the Shadow Shard (1:54-2:07)
MAP: Storm Palace
Midnighters in the Shard, using staves and/or the Lost Curing Wands
Rularuu resisting, but then fades away to nothing
Add aura?
HA! MOV/FX to use - PENELOPE_YIN_CAPTURE is that neat "Lost captured by Rikti" thing!

And it goes from there.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

So you don't pre-plan the camera angles, at least not outside of your head, right? I think that's the benefit I'm seeing with this exercise. I'm forced to think about positioning of all the backgrounds, objects, actors, camera, etc. for each shot. I think it is helping me when I do my demorecordings to get angles closer to the final one.

I wish I was organized enough to storyboard. So far mine have been "on the fly" as it were. I get an idea in my head of what I want next then I have to figure out how to get it on film.
One of these days I'll have a plan before I start.

for the comics I've made, I did full script and story board plus tech script. Not sure if that answers your question any or not.