music video storyboard

The purpose of a storyboard is to clearly plan scene by scene how your music video is going to pan out. By clearly laying out the timing of each shot and the type of shot it is going to be, the filming process is made much more easy and it also more time efficient knowing what you are shooting each day.

We collected primary and secondary research asking questionnaires on what people wanted to see in music videos. Once we had collected these results and also analysed other music videos from the same genre as ours we decided upon the narrative of our own video.

We had a storyboard template which made it easy to lay out and clear to understand. We shared responsibility by one of us drawing us the pictures and one of us filling in information such as timing of shot, type of shot, location of shot and who was in the shot. By using these specifics for each shot we were able to plan out our music video and properly prepare ourselves for the filming process. I found this very helpful as when it came to filming we had clearly laid out ideas of what needed achieving in each filming session.

By drawing the shots it gave us a way of putting our ideas on paper and then trying to recreate them as accurately as possible when we filmed. However one down side of this for example in our first shot we had an idea of a high angle wide shot to establish the scene. This however was not possible to create as the height and depth of the shot we wanted was not possible with the equipment at our disposal.