# Working With Storyboard Panels

Panels are displayed in timeline views (the Panel View and Timeline View) and in the Drawing View.

A panel is an essential building block of a storyboard and is rich in information.

- Its visual content describes a part of a shot that you want to film.
- A panel can include camera information, including information about the setup and camera movements.
- A panel can have captions associated with them, which can be used to add textual information. Text can include, but is not limited to, dialogue, continuity, prop and equipment notes, staff required for the shot and sound track timing.
- A panel exists in a sequence of other panels that create the story that you want to develop for production. A single panel can be used to describe a shot, although more complex shots may require additional panels.

In Toon Boom Storyboard:

- A single drawing can be created in a panel, or visual content can be stored on multiple drawing layers. These can be modified, rearranged and swapped between panels.
- Visual guides define where you want to place the camera at the beginning of a panel and at the end. This information is automatically converted into a dynamic camera move in the animatic output from your Toon Boom Storyboard project.
- Four caption fields are included automatically for each panel, but an unlimited number of caption types can be added to storyboard panels allowing you to organize text in a manner that is relevant to your project. Text can be imported from text files directly into a panel’s text field. In addition to textual notes, you can also record audio notes using the voice annotation feature.
- Panel order can be rearranged by inserting, deleting and dragging and dropping selected panels to their new position in the storyboard. Panels can be linked together to form new shots, and panels that form shots can be disconnected from each other.

You can use a number of Toon Boom Storyboard’s features to work with panels.

- Adding Panels
- Deleting Panels
- Duplicating Panels
- Renaming Shots
- Joining Panels to a Shot
- Splitting Panels in a Shot
- Inserting Transitions
- Deleting Transitions
- Adding Snapshot Markers to a Panel
- Deleting Snapshot Markers from a Panel
- Importing Images into Storyboard
- Onion Skinning: Displaying Drawings from Next and Previous Panels