STORYBOARDING

In order to ensure that we knew clearly what shots we needed and wanted we decided to storyboard each scene we wanted to shoot and drew the main shots we thought we wanted. This will make shooting much easier as when we are filming each scene we will be able to refer to the storyboard in order to make sure we get the shots that we need, creating a main structure for our piece. In total we constructed three storyboards - 2 sheets and then one.

1st Shot = Wide/mid shot of a photograph of our main characters Kate and Tom (our artist/girlfriend figure and our boyfriend figure). This shot is going to be still and the photograph is going to be whole. Then at the end of our music video we plan to have the same shot again but with the photo torn to give connotations of the couple having split up, very much like the photo.


2nd Shot = To further emphasise to our audience the troubles which the couple face we then plan for the second shot to be a long take of the couple having an argument and Tom walking away, but as he does so we will then use a fast zoom in to bring attention to Kate grabbing Tom and pulling him towards her to put focus on the line "Let`s talk this over". Implying to the audience a realistic portrayal of an argument as often people argue but then want to talk about it afterwards and in some cases want to talk about it straight away in regret of their previous words.


3rd Shot = Contrasting from the previous shot, to portray to our audience a sense of intimacy between the couple we then plan to use an arch shot which will rotate around the couple giving the audience an all round view of the couple`s affections towards one another, focusing on emotion.


4th Shot = To give our audience a sense of the visuals matching the lyrics we then plan for our next shot to be an extreme close up of Kate`s lips linking with the lyrics, "Was it something you said".


5th Shot = Continuing the idea of the visual matching the lyrics, for the line, "In a city so dead" we plan to film this shot in our local city of Lincoln in which we are going to get Kate to stand in the middle of the high street and then film people walking past her. We then plan to speed the footage of the people walking past her up to suggest to our audience an idea of how the troubles in Kate`s relationship with Tom make her world stop still while everything/everyone else goes about their daily lives.


6th Shot = Taking a particular like to the line, "held up so high on such a breakable thread" we have come up with the idea as presenting Kate as a puppet to convey to the audience that she is inferior and lacks control in comparison to Tom - Tom is her "Puppeteer" if you like.


7th Shot = For one of our performance locations we are thinking about using the gifted and talented centre on the school premises. We feel this location will be a good one as it is a very open space in which Kate will be able to express herself freely, highlighting to our audience the expression often seen within the rock pop genre.


8th Shot = Yet again using visuals which match lyrics in this shot we plan to put emphasis on Tom`s friends in relation to the line "You`ve got your dumb friends, I know what they". For this line we plan to have Tom`s friends gathered around him as if they are whispering to him and slandering Kate. We then plan to use a transition such as a fade to then cut to Kate whispering in Tom`s ear to highlight the line, "They tell you I`m difficult".

9th Shot = Planning to use slow motion to emphasise to our audience the action which is taking place we plan to have a shot in which Tom is being all affectionate to Kate stroking her face but then suddenly pushes her to floor, to create extra focus on the bad/evil action which Tom has done and the person he has become ("You were all the things I thought I knew") and Kate falling we therefore think slow motion will be appropriate.

10th Shot = This shot continuing from the previous one and continuing the lyric we will then film Kate lying on the floor after she has been pushed to give the audience a view of her reaction towards Tom`s actions and the emotion felt towards this, reflective of the rock pop genre.

11th Shot = Trying to put further emphasis on Tom`s `bad/evil' character we then plan for the next shot to be cutting the strings of Kate as a puppet on the line "Thanks for watching as I fall" highlighting Tom`s inconsideration for his lover.

12th Shot = Wanting to use a variety of locations for our performance scenes, we plan to film Kate in the Mic Room to give our music video a professional, musical appearance.




Same sort of ideas as the previous storyboard but elaborated more. This photograph above shows our other storyboard in which we took more consideration into the types of shots we wanted to use and their content. Such as the impact of zooms, close-ups, pans etc and how we thought our audience may view this types of shots in relation to the promotion of our artist.