MY STORYBOARDS - This Little Kitty By Toy Hearts

STORYBOARD

Storyboards are vital. In the storyboards we worked out the types of shots we were going to use, camera angles, the colours and shapes, the mise en scene, the camera movements, the framing and the way we would edit. So in the storyboar we work ebverything out, we plan, we test, in the real world the storyboard artist costs alot less per day than the £1 million plus that the movie would cost.

So woth our storyboard we are trying to visulize, to work out what is on screen. If it works we will then shoot it and then we will edit it together just like putting a puzzle together.
Unfortunattly our plan kept changing from our timeline to our storyboard. This meant our storyboard kept changing right up to the day of filming.

The storyboard builds on the timeline to visualise the shot and work out what lyrics would go well ith what shot and the timing for each shot that works with the image and lyrics. The storyboard shows and represents much more information about the way our music video is going to be produced than any other documentation we have.

In storyboaring you have to do lots of different shots to show ideas that you might have, these would include

• Wide Shot
• Extreme Closeup
• Closeup
• Mid Shot
• Long Shot

These would emphasise certain parts of the body or instruments to make the audience understand what is happening.

For example in one of our shots we have chosen to do an extreme close-up to show a somewhat fallic symbol and also to emphasise that it is a female singing and also to give her a sexy image.We would have about 10 closeups of the two girls that would show there attractive image, this would possibly chaneg the target audience to more male dominant than female dominant.

We would have about 8 closeups of the two girls together, showing that they both are yet again attractive and that they look good on camera, also to show sex appeal and unison between the two girls.

We would have about 5 shots of just the man, because unlike the girls he is older and male, and as our initial target audience was male orientated, the shots of women would appeal more to the audience than others.

In tracking we are to film the band playing in the studio and track with a table and a bottle of Jack Daniels, allowing us to see the band through the bottle. This would give the image that they are possibly in a concert or pub and people are watching them. We choose to use a Jack Daniels bottle as it was made in Tennesse which was the country that the group wanted to mainly target.

In editing for example when the man is playing the guitar in a long or mid shot we would then cut to him in an extreme or close-up of his fingers strumming the guitar to let the audience know what is happening, and why.


Here is an example from You Tube about how to storyboard-

TIMELINING

Timelining is the act of using words and times as a first try at linking images, words and music riffs. This helps the group understand the timings and the lyrics and how they might possibly work in the music video.

So with the timeline we can test out which line has a performance element with it, which one has a narrative image with it and which one has something else.

An example of this is that we will have close ups of the instrument being played during the various instrumental breaks. But we can see that with fifeteen intrumental breaks this might be too much , and so we would only continue with five of them. In our song there are around 7 guitar riffs and clearly 7 closeups would be too much, as the audience would know what was next and it would immediatly make the sequence rather boring.

Another example would be that our group has two females that sing and are young and attractive, therfore more appealing for the image that we are trying to portray. The third memeber of the group is a 50 year old man, which would not be as appealing to our group to film multiple shots. So it our timeline we could plan to be more centered on the two girls than the older male who is the instrumentalist. But the man has a very intersestuing face visually, and we might end up shooting lots of shots with him, in the final edit.

With the timline you can see wether images will hold for the time that we have given in the song. So if a line in the song is seven seconds, and you cut on the beat at the end, you need an image that will hold the seven seconds.

I attach copies of my timeline.

COMPOSITION RULES

There are over 100 composition rules for film making. These are very usefull for us in three ways. We shall try to :

• Use 10 of them at least once in our pop video.
  


• Write about each of them, with images, in our blog.


• Use a number of them (not all ten) in our exam essay as examples of our improvments in knowledge skills.
  

COMPOSITION RULES

All start from what we are trying to say, out hypothesi, our meaning.

• Different type of shot size



• Camera position and Angle (up shot, down shot)



• Camera movements



• Lighting
  


• Rule of thirds



• Leading the eye
  


• Colours



• Shapes and lines
  


• Detail arrangment in the frame



• Editing styles