FLASH: imagining motion........

[stuart mayhew]

Hi,

    as a print based designer who is now using flash more and more and wanting to push ever upwards I find designing layouts for print easy enough you play until you are happy or the client says yes......however how do you people get started on thinking in animating terms......We all know the effects available blurring, fading enter stage left etc......but how would recommend I start producing an animation in conceptual form so as not to waste prescious time, so that things appear to have a professional approach and structure and do not just use all techniques available just for the sake of using Flash.....ie. what do you use to help picture the structure of content.....storyboards or pure imagination because you have done it all before.......please help