Storyboard

Storyboard is a plan you shoot to, if it works on paper then it is less expensive to do than to waste time on camera shooting for hours if not days. Story board work out the type of shot, angles, camera movements, mis en scene, colours and shapes and how the picture composition rules will be applied in the film.




Storyboards are used to build on the timeline so that you can visually see if your ideas will work, this also allows you to plot out what types of shots to use and why, for example during out tracking shot out from our singers face to her sitting on a swing we are planning on cutting to some close ups of people playing instruments in the band, this way it will break up a very long track but it will also allow the viewers to get a feel for the band and get to know them and be more aware of them. The storyboard can also be useful for planning how we will edit our video, for example our group was thinking about trying baletic editing, therefore when I drew the storyboard images I tried to see if that would work.

We will have several close ups of the lead singer and a few close ups of the other band members, this will help sell the brand and the band. The colours in the video will be kept quite light and summery as not only does it keep with the theme and nature of the song but it also keeps in with the nature of the band itself as they have quite a bohemian style.




As you can see in the story boards above they clearly illustrate what will happen in each shot, you can see in the storyboard on the left that there will be a wide shot of the girl swinging on the swing, an extreme close up to show her singing, a mid shot and then a shot of feathers falling to add in another element. This will hopefully be very useful for us when we come to edit as we can refer back to these storyboards to figure out our shot order and editing style.

You can see in the storyboard on the far left we use tracking shots to go along with the singer. These tracking shots would let the audience feel very intimate with our lead singer and therefore feel connected with her, also it is very aesthetically pleasing. It also allows the viewers to feel as if they are going along with our singer and feel more personal.

I researched into storyboarding and found this interesting tutorial on Shrek. This was very useful and interesting.