storyboards - Miss Miller

Storyboards





The purpose of constructing storyboards for our music video is in order to plan and make sure that the shots we want to include in our music video, are actually possible. The storyboards help us to consider where we should include certain shots within the music video. For example at the chorus part of the song, we have storyboarded the artist to be on stage, in a dress and heels. This is so the audience will be able to see the professional side of our artist, which we think is crucial to include within our music video. Having a storyboard is only a outline of what we are going to include, when we are filming, we may add in other shots that we didn't actually plan on the storyboard.

As a group we all carried out primary and secondary research before constructing the storyboards for our music video. This research included looking at other artists music videos. Obviously due to our group doing an Adele song, an artist we frequently look to is Adele. By watching and analysing Adele's music videos it has inspired us to incorporate shots that may be effective in creating emotion and that are conventional to the soul genre. An example, is Adele song 'someone like you' Within this song a close up shot is frequently used in order to show the audience her feelings and emotions. I thought that this shot would have similar effect on our audience, for our music video. Therefore by watching soul artist music videos as secondary research, it has benefited the group in being able to understand what shots might be a good idea to include. We then used primary research to find out what our audience was looking for in a soul genre music video. As a group we constructed a questionnaire with ten questions about what that would expect and want to see in a soul genre music video. The results have been reflected on when planning the storyboards and have helped us to understand our target audience better.

I personal was inspired by Amy Winehouse and have taken inspiration from the music video 'tears dry on their own' During this music video Amy walked down a busy high street but still looked isolated, as she did not make eye contact with anyone. After being inspired by this shot, I put it forward to the group that we could use a shot in London similar to Amy Winehouse's to show vulnerability and insecurity within the artist.  Which are both stereotypical representations portrayed in soul genre music videos. Another inspiration my group found was the use of the black and white filter. We thought this filter would be effective during the scenes that the artists memories are being shown. To illustrate to the audience that she is reflecting on her past. The black and white filter immediately connotes the past, this helps the audience to understand the music video and how the artist desperately misses her past.

My group and I received blank storyboard sheets, which as you can see: have a box for a small drawing of what the shot should look like, then a box to write down the essentials, such as the location, actors, narrative description and more.  Our group consisting of four members allowed us to each take on board a sheet and start filling parts of the storyboard in. This helped us to use our time effectively in order to finish our storyboards. While constructing the storyboards we all came up with ideas that were discussed and constructed in order to be put down in our story boards. Overall we used nine storyboard sheets between all of us, which totalled to thirty six frames. We thought that this would be enough to have a rough outline of what we want to have included within our music video. The most time consuming part of the constructing the storyboard was the drawings, but we each made sure that the box below was filled in, as the drawing is not the most important. However we did manage to finish our storyboards with the drawings included. We shared responsibilities; at the beginning by having ella do the drawings, and Amy, Hannah and I were giving ideas and filling out the bottom part of the sheet. Then as we began to run out of time,  we each took onboard a sheet each and done everything on the sheet.

Overall we have started to film our music video and have included shots that were planned within our storyboard. But when filming Amy and Ella found a conventional wall in London that the filmed on. This was not planned but the whole storyboard does not have to followed frame for frame. Furthermore by including some shots that we have not planned, it will leave us with more shots that we could use when we begin to edit. This will be beneficial as we will need to incorporate as many shots as we can, so that the music video is not seen as boring.