Finished Storyboard

We finally finished storyboarding today. We continued our process of listening to our song and drawing shots that we wanted to occur at different points. As our music video contains quite a lot of locations, for example, Camden, Brick Lane, studio shots, a spiral staircase and a maze, we needed a way to tie all of this together, instead of the locations appearing randomly and not contributing to an overall story or idea. Towards the end of the song the pace increases as the song becomes more dramatic, we want to increase the pace of our shots to match this, flashing quickly to all of the previous locations in order to bring the video 'full circle'.

We also decided to change the plot twist of our narrative, instead of revealing the character to be a professional, smartly dressed office worker at the end of the video, we wanted to imply this more subtly. Still following the same idea of her lost, reckless and unhinged personality that is seen throughout the video being juxtaposed with her 'real', calm and composed self, we wanted the final few shots to suddenly slow in pace as the song fades out, with the final shot being the character emerging from the maze looking more composed than her previous crazed self. We want this shot to continue as the song finishes, with the diegetic sounds of birdsong and wildlife fading in. We hope that this will help to contrast her two personalities, as well as the previous gritty, urban locations.

Upon finishing our storyboard and reorganising the Post-it notes into an order that fitted the song, we drew each shot up neatly on the official  A3 storyboard, taking note of timings, camera movements, sound and angles. These specific details will help us get the exact shots that we envision whilst filming, making the filming process easier and faster as we will have clear direction.

                     

                      

Below is our finished storyboard: