R+P Post 21: My key shots storyboard

We made a story board so that we could visualise our shot ideas for the music video so far. Our music video will contain lots of fast paced editing and a wide variety of shots, so we made our storyboard contain only the key shots we plan to include in our music video.

Story board page 1

Story board page 2

We made our storyboard using post it notes so that we could easily rearrange, add, or remove ay shots we felt necessary. Additionally, each different colour represented a different type of framing; yellow is CU, blue is MS, green is LS. Each of these contained every type of this framing (eg under LS there could be an ELS or an MLS).

PLAN FOR BAND SHOTS:

• Handheld individual shots of each of the band members playing.
• MS, LS, and CU of each of the band mambers playing.
• Handheld shots of whole band.
• LS, MS, and CU of whole band.

Our influence for these shots came mostly from Echosmith's Cool Kids, which had a rnage of band and solo shots filmed both in handheld shots and in stationary shots.



Band shots from Echosmith's Cool Kids.

PROS OF MAKING A STORYBOARD:

• Allows us to plan exact shots we want in our music video for each scene.
• Allows us to visualise our narrative and ideas for the video really well, including helping us pin down costumes, props, and lighting set-ups. This meant we could prepare well for pur shoot.
• Helps us to make sure we have a good variety of shot content and framing, to ensure we keep the audience's attention and engage them with interesting visuals.