The storyboard process was invented by Webb Smith abournd 1931. Walt latched onto the idea of pinning sketches of scenes, dialogue, music choices, etc. The sketches were pinned to the boards to indicate the continuity of the story scenes. Walt reviewed every project idea on these story boards at story meetings. Story boards were approved or disapproved and if accepted used to coordinate production.
Stories discipline by defining characters, sequencing plots, and scripting actions.
Because of the opportunity for multiple interpretation, much of management is about judging stories and storytellers and capturing story characters in a panoptic, interconnected netwrok of interpretative-disciplinary relationships. This is a storied panoptic process in three ways. First, the meetings set up an intersecting gaze to make each project and its progress visible. Story meetings were tense affiars. Walt had a habit of drumming his fingers on the arm of his chiar.