Jon Dahlstrom draws advertising wise storyboards that tell the story, sell the idea, and work hard in production, Storyboards are an integral part of award winning film and video production, from the first creative and planning sessions, to final edit.

Good boards show the feel, pacing, and look of each shot, from wide angle panoramic scenes to extreme close-ups, Storyboards help clients, directors, actors, and effects designers, understand the mood and action, of the story, whether it's winged super heroes diving between tall buildings or steel workers stoking blast furnaces.

 

Storyboards tell the story, from cutlass wielding pirates, to couch potatoes, grandpas, to toddlers, linebackers to ballerinas.

Storyboards define the characters, little boys dressed up in their Sunday go to meeting best, bare foot girls fishing off the dock, or captain Ahab lashed to the back of the white whale, in neighborhood focus groups, and big time corporate marketing presentations.

Storyboards sell the concept, serious subject, or humorous tale, dramatic lighting, forced perspective, or hand held camera, Whether our hero is hanging by one hand above the raging flood, or running, leaping, and scrambling through the jungle, storyboards show the action, castles to cabins dirt bikes to tricycles windjammers to off road vehicles volcanoes to vineyards heavy weight boxers to Wednesday night bingo players helicopters and motorcycles raging floods prom night expectations, or tabby cat curled in a spot of sun. On time. Rush jobs on Saturday, Forty frames at the airport by 7:00 am. No problem. Dramatic lighting castles and cabins.

 

 


Artist Profile

   Jon Dahlstrom
    The Storyboard Doctor

Some People say that Jon Dahlstrom came into this world drawing. In fact Jon can't remember a time in his life when he wasn't drawing.

From his earliest years he filled every available sheet of paper, including the back of lunch bags and margins of second grade math papers with drawings of cars, cowboys, and football players. Always shown in action, always telling a story.

Jon grew up in a rural community in Southern California to become a scholarship student at the Art Center College of Design. A freelance Illustrator published in dozens of books and magazines including Road & Track, Cycle world, 'Teen, Surfer, the Los Angeles Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune, to name but a few, and earned awards from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, and the New York Art Directors Club.

From the San Gabriel Valley he moved to Santa Barbara and then to San Francisco to earn his creative stripes in advertising agencies large and not so large. With product and brand groups that included Sambo's Restaurants, Santa Barbara Savings, Lotus Cars, and Microsoft.

Winning awards in both print and broadcast, including Best In The West, a Clio nomination, and a Silver Medal from the Film Festival of the America's.

Now as the Storyboard Doctor, working from his studio at the top of the Bay, Jon uses a unique combination of advertising agency experience and his natural drawing and storytelling abilities, drawing cowboys, cars, and Clorox Bottles for some fo the top agency creative in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.

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Jon Dahlstrom the Storyboard Doctor.
120 Mountain Path Road Dahlonega / GA 30533
www.sbdoc.com Call 706 482-0258
E-mail jon@sbdoc.com Fax 706 482-0147