Storyboard · 16:9 Frames

About Storyboard · 16:9 Frames

A pre-laid storyboard sheet of 16:9 frames sized to comfortably take a marker sketch, with a generous gutter beneath each frame for action and camera notes. Useful for any architect or designer who needs to walk a client through how a space is experienced rather than how it is laid out. Further reading: A practitioner reading list covers the standards lineage in more depth.

Standards lineage

Frame aspect ratio matches the SMPTE 16:9 broadcast standard for compatibility with rendered fly-throughs.

A short history

The storyboard format was popularised at the Disney Studios in the early 1930s and adopted by architects in the 1960s as a way to communicate sequential spatial experience.

Where designers reach for it

• Spatial walk-throughs for clients
• Way-finding strategy presentations
• Service-design journey maps
• Brand-experience storyboards

Printing this grid

Every variant on this page is delivered as a vector SVG with physical millimetre dimensions baked into the file, so a compliant printer driver will reproduce it at exact 1:1 scale by default. Choose the sheet size that matches your printer tray, set scaling to 100 % (never "fit to page"), and verify with the calibration check on our how-to-print guide. Buyer's guide: Comparing the major architectural scale rulers can help you pick the right physical scale rule to use over the printed grid.