Story board

We have been creating our story board now for several weeks and it is almost finished and I have taken photos of it to analyse it and say about what we have done. We firstly wanted to clearly set out our idea so we talked about it and from recent posts you can see our idea and what we had strongly before we started

As you can see, this is our first board. We did not do an alternative to this because we know we can use the recourse's easily and there would be no problem in filming this part. It is the idea of him having an envelope and getting texts from friends asking is he had done well, meaning his uni results. He then goes to lay down and we zoom into his face and he appears in a alternative world, where you do not know if its a dream or a memory and he goes into this place and meets his friends, the ones texting him. We think this was good as we are using a variety of camera angles and we are also going to be using the rule of thirds throughout and have him in the middle of the shot, except in the 11th as we are introducing his friends but still using the rule just on them.

This is the second page and the song has now gone form the prelude and the song is playing over the noise. We are going into this world now and are showing his friends and who is positioned where. We had columns on each side which i created which are positioning,comments and camera shots. We used these when needed when the paper can not show clearly so we thought this was a good idea to have these to explain further and detail what we were going to do. Throughout this we were thinking about where we can film these in our chosen location, Bawsey pits in Kings Lynn. We then noted these and used this a good recourse to use for this. While making this we were also thinking about what the characters were going to be wearing and how we were going to portray this throughout and link it with the genre.

This is carrying on in the location selected and moving on the video linking in the video with the lyrics and working out what would work well with it. We are still using the camera shots wanted and changing things but keeping continuity. In this board also, they have found the large tree which is the centre of the movie and we created a second in case we could not find this and we were going to make a new story board for this but after going to the location, we found this was not needed as we found a perfect place to film this. This is also the scene he runs away in and we want him to go through forested areas and all this is written and the comments explain more and develop further on what we are doing.

In this board we have shown at the top that when he runs away he goes to a lake and we wanted a frame in front of him but then we realised this may not be possible as the water so we made an alternative in case where beside him we have the shot and have it show him pick it up and only show his legs, we have a video to show this action and it will be uploaded soon. Over the page it is going from them finding him and consolidating him and we are going to use camera shots to show this and show his reactions and use it as a key to get things heard better.

This is the last page we have and it shows them running back to the last tree and finally playing together near this tree. We also have an alternative here though where we will go to a large open area near the tree as there is more room to get good camera shots and also we can get better lighting. We did not make any story board for the singing and dancing as it may depend on the lighting on the day and also the unpredictable weather we have. This will be created on the day by getting lots of shots and several for each sentence and using the best one to match later on in the editing.


We also did some practise shots while creating this as we felt this was needed to see if it works. We had a discussion on the storyboard and it was filmed while doing so and we edited the practise shot onto the end to show the ideas we are trying to show and see if it would fit and if the camera shot works. 

I think this was a good idea as it now shows that the shot would work and we can incorporate it into our music video as a sequence.

After creating the story board we have a much more clear idea on what we are doing. The storyboard has helped as it has meant that we have had good discussions on what we want to do and also we have a story we all agree on and feel it is clear and will work. The toy board is useful because it also means on the day we film,we have a structure to do it on a and that means it will be better set out and be more efficient when coming to edit it together. We have our camera shots on here and also from the film we took, we can also see that it should work after testing it and seeing if it works.
The only down fault to this board is that by not storyboarding the singing area we may not get good results from this but we are willing to take the risk as the weather and lighting are a larger problem and we can create 3 scenarios ad use the best one depending on what we feel will work best. I feel we have high detail throughout with the comments and positioning,comments and camera shots and we have a clear structure on what to do on the day of filming.