Story Board

Storyboards are a way of showing graphic organisation by the use of serious of illustrations or image which is displayed in a sequence. The purpose of a storyboard is mainly for pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. For my media course I shall get together with me group and create a storyboard by using a combination of ideas and including it into one illustration story line. By the use of combining all our ideas we have managed to come up with some story plan that will help enhance the narrative of our music video.

This is our story board of some rough ideas what the narrative could be and what time of camera shots will be used.

Shot 1: This song is going to be a really interesting way of representing the songs title. The letters will be blown by a powerful fan and the printed letters will blow away from the fan, entering the this room. The lettering will preferably be still movements used my a camera layering in the editing stages. Each individual letter will begin to create the title of the song and promote the artist. This will be done by using a long high angle shot of the room.

Shot 2: This high establishing shot introduces our character to the scene as he walks through a door from real life to his mind. We have metaphorically used a door as a prop to his mind, to represent different sections or chambers of his deepest darkest thoughts. Within this shot, costume and editing are major influences on creating the right ‘feel’ to our video, and hopefully the audience will see we have drawn influence from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and given it an urban touch.

Shot 3: This will be an extremely high angle shot from the corner of this empty room, as we mainly wanted to give the illusion of the walls climbing higher, with the character/artist looking very vulnerable.

Shot 4: Will be a direct shot of joey (Kid Cudi) looking outside a window, whilst tightly gripping onto the metal bars which represents he is trapped in a prison cell. The lighting of this shot will be very dark, as we shouldn’t film the camera directly at the light otherwise the character will be completely black and hardly visible to the viewers, however this is the effect that we wanted to give.

Shot 5: This will be a very hard shot to create and therefore will be taking a risk. It’s going to be a midshot/close up on Joey’s face, and ith the use of the ‘cookie cutter’ we will split the screen in half, directly in the middle of his face. One half of his face shall be reality and the other side of his face will be animated, or if this is not possible to create with our skills, we will use our innitative and use an alternative idea of having the other half of the shot of him still trapped/or in the real world.

Shot 6: Shot 6 is an early idea at an ending where we reveal to the audience that the man has been living life all along and that all the events show in the video are an average day for him. By using this show we have turned the concepts of work and the stress that city life creates into metaphorical situations in which one person is stuck doing something they don’t particularly like (in this case being trapped). Although this idea may change, we intend to create an ending which interlinks with the beginning, In this example, the man may walk into his office which is in fact the white room at the start (scene 1). This will thicken the narrative and encourage repeatability of the song within the audience.