Analysis of our storyboard

From doing the storyboard, we structured and planned our music video by looking intricately at each shot and composing and drawing it to make it clear.

The storyboard was a moderately hard thing to develop to get all the ideas onto many pages through drawing. The storyboard was composed through the timeline, which was made at around the same time as the storyboard. The changes in the timeline ensured the storyboard would have to be tweaked. This resulted having to re-draw certain frames to make sense and flow as a storyboard.

The storyboard is going to be the most useful when it comes to editing to get what we had in our initial vision and also helped us realise as a group the importance of the studio shots and how we will compose the artist in the studio with the lighting. The storyboard had to be drawn with 60 shots and the idea of paying close attention to shots, such as close-ups of the guitar and close-ups of the artist being key.

The storyboard overall allowed the music video to come together and united all the ideas into pictures to give a visual idea. The storyboard helped us think about issues where our group debated things such as whether we should have the singer singing in other locations or just in the studio. This became clear from other indie music videos and fitted well in the storyboard where memories of dates are shown whilst the performance element is closely tied within the storyboard through the studio.

The storyboard will not link to the way we will film. This is because on shoot day we will film a various range of shots which we may come up with on the day. This means that we will not follow the storyboard exactly when editing as it won’t be totally precise. However, the storyboard has given us a good solid foundation to help us get started.