Why is Storyboarding important?

A Storyboard is vital to allow the director to visualise the flow of camera shots through means of a graphical representation using captions to describe the basic details. It is as a planning tool to give the directors a clear understanding of what shots they need to shoot on the day, we have used this as a key element in our planning of our music video for example inside the club we sketched out the shots we wanted, a mid two shot, and drew them into the set which was further explained in the details. This allowed us to have a clear pictorial guide on what our shot would look like and how it would relate to the other shots in a rough sketch. The Storyboard then allowed us to discuss with regards to how the video would be directed and the direction of photography within the video. This is a vital tool in the music video process, particularly for the shots that we plan on editing back into through use of a green screen or special effects so that we know exactly what shot we need from the day of shooting to edit into to get the end shot we want.
Storyboards are used in each element of production. In Pre-Production storyboards are used to plan the feel and overall mood of the video by planning out the costumes and set and seeing how all the elements of each shot works without the added details of lighting, camera movement and action yet.
During Production copies of the storyboards are handed out to every member of the crew so that everyone has the same idea of what shots need to be created on the shoot day.

In Post Production the storybaord is used as a visual reminder of what shots were filmed and in what order, it is particularly important in the editing of videos that use special effects.

What is Storyboarding?

A storyboard is a graphical version of the series of shots shown in the music video with captions that describes the location, action, camera direction, lighting and sometimes simple dialogue. The Director uses a storyboard to plan the shots he wants to use in his music video and to make sure that the shots work in a sequence together to create a successful music video. It is an essential planning tool prior to and on the day of the shoot for compiling in a simple fashion all the shots.

Deconstruction of Album Covers

This album cover is clearly a take on Jack on the beanstalk which instantly sparks interest for the viewer as its familiar, but its been distorted to seem much more mythical and scary as well as the boy but much younger than the original. It all builds to give the album cover a spooky, dangerous and mysterious image. The ladder looks rough and impossible to climb again adding to the danger factor of the album cover. The sky is green where as up in the clouds its purple which gives the cover a toxic look as if the sky is poisonous and again dangerous, but retains this enigma of where the ladder leads to and the eye grabbing colours that attract us to the album. The fact that the character is a young child represents the naïve curiosity that the viewer can relate to and feel a part of whilst also reinforcing the danger he is in.

This is clearly designed to resemble the punk nature of the band and appeal to a rebellious youth audience. The stencil style of the red words across the undisturbed black and white image reminds us of spray paint on an undisturbed wall in society which is associated with rebellious youths. The way the figure is dressed is a typical punk style with his tattoo saying punk being made very clear as well as his hair, which gives the album a first look punk style reflecting the nature of the band. This is also represented in the scratchy scruffy writing of ‘…And out come the wolves’ which loosely resembles their punk style through their rejection of traditionally pleasing writing.

 

Reviewed Music Video Source Images

These are source images to give inspiration for our reviewed Music video idea

Music Video Timeline

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Music Video Shots Timeline

MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE                                          SHEET NO: __1___

TIME	LYRICS/MUSIC	WHAT DO WE SEE
00:01 00:03 00:05 00:08 00:10 00:12 00:15 00:20 00:23 00:25 00:27 00:30 00:35 00:37 00:42 00:47 00:52 01:00	Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Beginning tune	Long shot from behind of two people on colourful bicycles. Cut to close ups of the wheel on the road. Close up of the faces listening to headphones of the song. Wide two shot one punches the air. Close up shot of the wheels on the road. Mid shot of them laughing. Wide shot of the crossing over on bikes. Close up shots of wheel spokes. Wide angle, stop at corner, served drinks. Extreme close up shot of drinking shots. Wide shot of throwing drinks on each other. Mid two shot of sat on pavement for a cigarette, have a break and chatting to each other. Close up of pedal as they get back on bikes. wide angle shot from behind as they cycle of in a drunk manner. Long shot of the two boys seeing how their sexuality affected their lives; Boy 1 being bullied by other kids. Boy 2 having an argument with his parents. We then see the 2 Boys being very affectionate with each other. They bicycle towards the club, they then lay down their bicycles and enter the club.

Treatment for Music Video

Media Studies - Treatment