Creating The Storyboard

Storyboard

As my music video is a performance, it also has a narrative. I had to storyboard the person running to get to the gig on time. This was the easiest part to do as I knew exactly what shot types I wanted and it was also easy to draw. Drawing the band's performance was the hardest part. I had to draw each band member from a different angle and since i am not the best drawer in the world, this was very hard to do. I managed to draw most of the shots, but in the end i gave up and instead wrote a shot list.

Shot List

These are the different camera angles we are hoping to get whilst filming the band's performances.

1) A mid-shot of the band playing together
2) A mid shot of the band playing from behind
3) A mid shot of the vocalist
4) a close up of the vocalist's face
5) A side on shot of the vocalist
6) A pan around shot of the vocalist
7) A pan around shot of the guitarist
8) A pan around shot of the drummer
9) A mid-shot of the guitarist
10) A close up of the guitar itself
11) A high angle shot of the guitarist
12) A close up of the guitar (only the solo)
13) A mid-shot of the drummer
14) A close-up of the drummer
15) A high angle shot of the drummer

Animatic

I then worked on creating the animatic with the frames of the storyboard that I did draw out. Here is the finished version of the animatic, which I edited / created using FinalCut.



Having shown the animatic to the band, they were impressed with the look of the video and agreed to let me carry on with the plans for the video. Their only concern was with me filming the narrative and I said I would start planning that after I had filmed them during their rehearsal on the weekend.