oh my gosh.

So here I am sitting at my desk, up to my elbows in charcoal, sketching out frames for my storyboarding class, while my friends are outside swimming, barbecuing and camping... and I am thinking the following:
1) I hate summer classes.
2) I really hate summer classes that happen to be on Saturday morning.
3) I really really hate Saturday morning summer classes that have DRAWING HOMEWORK.
4) I super extremely hate Saturday morning, summer drawing classes where the homework is to draw people and places that explain a narrative in two- and three-point perspective from creative angles, without forgetting my line of action, or breaking the 180-degree barrier, or confusing my audience.

I don't even really know what I am doing right now. How do you draw a storyboard? Why didn't my teacher give me any directions? Am I supposed to mount this? Can I use graph paper? Tracing paper? Bristol board? Matboard? What size? Should there be a border? Should my frames be sketchy, or finalized? Should my figures be exact? Should the frames have shot descriptions? Dialogue? How many frames per page? Should I title them? Number them? Render them? Do I use pen or pencil? If I use pen, what size should the tip be? 0.3mm? 0.5? If I use pencil, should I use soft or hard lead? 4H or 4B? HB? F? Do I draw my vanishing points, or just guess where they are? Do my figures need clothing? What if I don't draw any clothing, is that wrong? Can the frames be simple, or do they need detailed backgrounds?

You'd think creatively-minded people would crave artistic freedom, but I just want some direction because I have no idea what I'm doing. If you say to me, "write a 7-page paper on the role of women in athenian society" I could do it, no problem. I could write a colorful introduction to grab your attention with a quote from Plato or Socrates, I could guide you through six pages of opinions supported by ancient historical texts, and I could tie it all together nicely with some well-researched closing lines.
But tell me to draw 8 frames of a storyboard, and I panic. Oh boy.

Okay... I am just going to do whatever I feel like doing. If it's wrong it's wrong, I can't really help it at this point... I find with art stuff you usually have to mess it up pretty bad a few times before you can really get it right... there aren't exactly hard-and-fast rules or formats for success.