We decided to make a key shots storyboard to add further detail to what we had planned out when creating our timeline, and get a rough idea of specific shots we wanted in our music video.
After procuring a couple of large pieces of black sugar paper, we used post it notes to show shots, drawing on them what would appear in the frame. We had different colour post its to denote what framing each shot would be. Yellow was for long shots (LS), greyish/pale blue for mid shots (MS), and blue for close ups (CU).
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| A picture of the majority of our storyboard |
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| The last chunk of our storyboard with the colour code key at the bottom right |
Character or prop movement was communicated via a thin arrow, whilst camera movement such as pans or tilts was shown via thicker arrows. We also wrote out short notes above shots if there were any other details of what would be happening (such as cgi to be done in post-production).
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| One of our post-it-notes, a long shot denoting the main character drawing a flag. |
On many of our post-it-notes we wrote short captions to clarify what was supposed to be happening in the shot. This appeared more often on shots with complex movement.
Creating a storyboard like this was really useful as it allowed us to iron out any gaps in the progression of shots in our music video. Furthermore by using post-it-notes we were subsequently able to re-arrange shots as and when we wanted to.
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