Lastly I decided to look up something lighthearted and chose 'Arthur', which is a children's animated TV show which I used to be obsessed with for quite a while after what would be classed as a 'child'. These storyboards were particularly fascinating because they included hardly any backgrounds/settings on ANY of them. They mainly focussed on the character detailing and what the characters was holding, or even the objects around them. This to me was interesting and I associated the link between including no backgrounds in the storyboards to the fact that it is primarily marketed towards children and all children are really going to be focussing on is the centre of the screen, i.e the characters and what they are doing. Perhaps this concept is completely wrong however I thought it was different and either way does not change the way I look at the show.
I also love how the characters here look exactly the way they do on the show. As in they were really happy with their initial ideas of the character in the storyboards that they just used them right away. This could however be done for time reasons. Usually for television series, deadlines are extremely tight so many they had to do detailed storyboards and plans because they were going to actually use them as key frames in the show. I could be completely wrong, but I do love the detail on them and it has brought back many nostalgic feelings.
Overall I found that there are multiple styles in storyboarding. Not one is ever the same, but they do have multiple things in common such as provoking emotion and making the audience feel involved in the piece. These are things I think I am definitely going to take on board when I next create a storyboard!
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