Storyboards

Storyboards are graphic organisers combining two main parts: images and descriptions of a scene. They are a series of photos, drawings or clip art that outline the sequence of scenes and major changes in a video production. It includes graphics that reveal main action of scene as well a scene description. It also goes into further depth including aspects such as camera techniques and audio (eg. narration, dialogue, voice over, sound effects and music). It allows us to manage the timing of our production and gives us an opportunity to solve any problems that nay arise prior to filming. It portrays our basic idea of the production illustrates to others how the final product is seen as well as clarifying our vision to the rest of the group. 

We carried out a range of primary and secondary research in order to help us to plan our music video and provide us with a larger amount of information. Our primary research included: questionnaires and vox pops. This provided us with information on the preferences and opinions of our target audience as well as highlighting any areas that may allow us to expand our target audience. Our secondary research included: research into our artist and record labels; this provided us with knowledge to understand the style of the artist so that we could follow this within our own interpretation and music video. 

To storyboard our video we followed the outline that we was given and filled in each section to outline everything that we may need to know when filming our music video. To do so we combined each others individual ideas and discussed which would give our video the best outcome, we then transferred these onto out storyboards. The responsibility was split eveny between each member of the group by giving each individual a section of the nusic video to storyboard once it had been decided within the group. 

Our storyboards acted as a guideline to the different scenes and shots that we wanted to include. However this altered as we were filming due to the ivolving ideas that we had once we were in the actual location and the difficulty of achieving some of the shots that we had included in the storyboards. We began to realise that we had not planned the type of shots that we would include in enough detail. For example when the male character is walking through the graveyard and to the grave stone we had not included enough close up shots of his facial expressions in the planning and therefore added these once we began to film. This was the case in several different sections of the narrative, however the storyboards meant that we could follow the basics and adapt it when we felt necessary, producing a more successful music video. 

Our Storyboards: