Analysis of our storyboard

The purpose of creating a storyboard, is to give the directors of a film, programme, music video etc. what they're filming and when they're filming it. It enables them to understand what goes where, so that everything is filmed. As well as this, it helps to create a replica of what you're filming but on paper. This way all ideas are drawn and written out, and are made sure that it corresponds with that is going on e.g. actions that go with lyrics in a music video.

Our storyboard really helped us understand what we will be filming, and we will follow it shot by shot on our filming day. For our storyboard, we made it digitally, and incorporated any inspiration we got from other shots in different and similar music videos. As well as this, we used photos of the set that we would be using so we knew the location for each shot. The lyrics of the song being separated into lines and parts helped us understand how we're filming different shots and when to stop it.

By creating a storyboard, we had planned the day in terms of shooting, so we would spend as little time faffing around by not knowing what to do. We will then have time to film any additional shots that we feel could work well if we think so at the time. This is highly important and where a storyboard plays a vital part of our music video, is because our time shooting and with the camera is limited, so we needed to get everything done in the allocated time.

We found when creating a storyboard both easy tasks and challenges. Within our group it was my job to create the storyboard and so i faced many issues and also many things i could easily overcome.

One thing i found very easy was ideas. Once we had an idea and similar videos we could gain inspiration from i found it easy to decided what shots we could use. For example our opening shots will be close ups of Eleanor which is a similar concept to the song wrecking ball. I was therefore able to take screenshots from that music video and use the for our storyboard.

Another aspect of the music video i found to be easy was the fact our song has a some form of repetition and so we could use similar ideas throughout the video. For example for the chorus we will be using a dancing scene and because we decided on that early on during planning we know for sure thats what we will use on the storyboard.

One aspect i found challenging however was timing our shots with the music and beats of the song. We originally started writing the storyboard with no lyrics underneath and just planning the shots whilst listening to the song. This meant it was difficult to visualise the shots. However once we added the lyrics it became much easier and a faster process. 

Overall, our storyboard includes exactly what we need in order to be able to film our music video, this is helped by having pictures and photos of the shot examples, with lyrics attached to each shot, of which i feel will be very helpful on our filming day.