Storyboards

This is the storyboards that we have designed as a first draft of what shots we want in each scene of our music video. 

As part of preparing to film our music video we created a very basic story board to gain a rough idea of what we are hoping our music video come out looking like. Storyboards are there to help figure out what scene goes where, how long each scene will be and what camera angles are being used and when. This story board shows the basics and helps us gain a rough idea of planning the production schedule out as it shows what places we need to go first and what scenes we need to prioritise. As we start to get into more detail about our video the story board will change and things will become more clearer and more detailed.

As you can see for the moment we haven't added any images yet because we wanted to get down the basics and have a rough idea of what we wanted to do. During this process we are planning to use a variety of shots. Most of them will include a jump cut of different locations as that helps to place a story behind our music video. This will help to make the video more interesting and more engaging to our target audience. We want to try and use various shots so that the video doesn't become boring but not to many shots that our audience gets confused on whats happening. 

The things that we are going to add to our music video are things like the timings of each shot, angles, lighting and also what lyrics are being sung in what shot. Because our music includes background noise and things that aren't part of the song we are going to try and cut this out otherwise our music video would be too long and we think it would become unnecessary footage. 

Some of the shots that we are going to use is a jump cut and shot reverse shot. A jump cut is a cut in the film in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time. This shot will enable us to be able to tell the story in our music video. This is an example of how a jump cut is used when filming. It helps to make the transition between two shots smoother and easier to understand. 




A shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. We will use this shot to link two scenes together and to show expression of the characters that are not going to be singing in the music video. This is an example image of what a shot reverse shot is used when filming. It could also be linked to a over the shoulder shot in which it helps to show emotion and expression of the two actors.