Music Video Storyboards

Music Video Storyboard

The purpose of a storyboard is to show other people what the video will have in it  and what it includes before actually going out and filming the scenes. There are also different uses for storyboards such as is also used to save time and money as filming takes a long time such as with  travelling from one location to another , whilst  also cutting down on the money as it is expensive to travel and  buy props. Another use is to make the production easier as it shows us what camera shots to use, the order they will be done , and how the visuals will be in relation to our song. This will also make our filming time go down as we know precisely what we want to film and no time will be waster with uncertain camera shots and locations.

My own primary and secondary research helped plan the video in many ways, such as how we found originally from both our primary research that many people believed that our genre of psychedelic rock was too unique. They told us that they prefer main stream music genres and so we have tried to adapt our music video to suit this with trying to tone down how extreme some conventions of psychedelic rock are . We have done this by showing the artists face rather than leaving it a mystery which is conventional for psychedelic rock, and by not using extensive special effects which seem to alienate the audience away from our video. We also used our secondary research which backed up our primary research in that people were put off by a too unique video, so we also did things such as not using any costumes which are frequently used in psychedelic music videos. Finally we have made our narrative  much easier to understand than most other psychedelic rock music videos, this will make our video easier to watch as there are no confusing points that would put people off watching. This is how our group has tried to make the music video more mainstream as we felt psychedelic rock would be to extreme for our main audience.

Me and my group story boarded our music video by first starting to brainstorm our ideas together before agreeing on what the narrative of the video should be and the duration of certain scenes, such as having the house as a location for 20 seconds.Then we discussed the various camera angles that we could use for certain scenes and how they would look when filming for real , such as a high shot when our artist is going up and escalator. After this we drew up a simple narrative and then went into more detail for our final drawing of the storyboard which included even the shortest scenes, with what the artist is wearing , the iconography, the camera angles and what the artist does in the scene . We felt that we had shared the responsibility by collaborating our ideas into one which would result in the best video, this also meant that everyone had some part in the making of the narrative. Furthermore with all of us putting ideas in we could use the best of them and get the better quality film which would not have been possible without more than one person working on the project.


Overall we did not always follow the details of our storyboard as we chose to add things and take things away while we were filming although we still used the general outline of the narrative which the storyboard has. We did things such as use different camera angles which we did not know would be available and shot many more scenes than necessary so during editing we had lots of film to pick from. This would be helpful as we would not need to go out filming again which is very time consuming , and this could possibly ledd to better angles and scenes being in the video.