Story Board

When I began planning the music video I wanted to keep to my original plan of having every shot almost 2 seconds long and keeping the shots in time with the beat to make a fast paced music video that blended well with the song. To do this i carefully studied the song in order to find out when the verses, choruses and lines of the song changed with the timings. I got the lyrics for the song from the internet. I then listened to the song repeatedly until i had figured out the time each line of the song started and ended on. This also applied for guitar solo’s and other noises. This helped me think of ideas to what we could include as I needed to relate the lyrics of the song to what we would see in the video. 

 Knowing this information I then needed to plan my idea and make a story board for every single shot in the music video. I found it hard to go straight into what was going to happen and draw it so I chose to make a few ruff drafts on paper, just writing it out for what time the shot would show. This proved to be more affective as it could be easily changed and I did not need rub drawings out. This was very time consuming, but had to be done. At this stage I also got feed back from friends and people in my media class for what can be improved and any further suggestions to the story line. Doing this also let me elaborate when I was doing the story board. 

                                      

As there was so many shots to include for a 4 minute music video the story board was very time consuming. I also found that I got a bit carried away with the story line and starting planning things that we could not do due t not having a budget or not having the power that a production company has, like closing train stations, or forcing people out of a car park. 

What should have been done was the story board uploaded before we went filming because some of the pages got screwed up and creased. Especially the river scene. It was so windy the paper kept blowing away, getting trod on and quickly stuffed into bags.