Photographs of work in progress boards and Storyboard changes

21st October 2015

These are the first set of illustrations that we together as a group have come up with by brainstorming ideas. It has started with the concept of using locations that are outdoors, with a mixture of narrative and performance scenes (including having instruments in the video).

4th November 2015

Over the week we have made some storyboard changes to improve our music video when filming. In our music video we are using binary opposites of freedom and being trapped, which is shown in the illustrations that show Lucy being wrapped and tied/unable to move in black bed sheets (symbolises being trapped and black being a dull and lifeless colour), as well as the freedom side which is illustrated in myself (Ben), Darwin and Ryan having fun. However, we felt as though this was not enough to clearly tell the audience there are binary opposites, and so we have changed the storyboard and added scenes of the 3 boys using colourful paint splattered on our blank white t-shirts to symbolise the binary opposites through colours as well as having fun. We also had to make changes to how long we should have each scene for, as when going through the song first time when filming we noticed that some scenes were too short, and we had to correct our error on the storyboard so that next time we go filming it doesn't cause any problems.

6th November 2015
The final storyboard changes have now been made and our storyboard has been completed. We decided that there wasn't enough editing, therefore we have added split-screen editing as well as 're-winding editing' (playing the paint clip backwards so the paint comes off the t shirt and back on). We also thought that our storyboard was too focused on a narrative, therefore for the last chorus, bridge and scat we added scenes showing the instruments included in the clip to give the video more variety so that it is not  dominantly a narrative music video.

18th November 2015
Although we have finished our storyboard, during filming we have gone off the storyboard target as we  have come up with more ideas during filming. We have kept some shots on the sticky notes, such as the close up of the instruments, however have cut out others such as climbing on top of the UBC and a close up of the singers mouth singing. However, we have added other scenes such as having leaves being lifted up and the still stop-motion images edited with the green-screen.

How will this be used?
For our actual product, having a storyboard gives us as a group a general idea of how we are going to create our music video, what shot angles we are going to use, what location/settings, what editing and even what mise-en-scene factors we are going to include. After having drawn a different range of shot types, we decided that mid shots will be one of our most frequent shots. We decided this because it is common in the Ska genre to have this shot type as shown in other music videos. This will be effective as it means the audience is able to see the mise-en-scene as well as the actors/singer performing the instrument playing/lip syncing.


Photos of final storyboard after changes
(In order, top right is the first page, top left is the second page, and the bottom storyboard is the final page which also includes scrapped scenes which were changed as well as the location shots listed.)