Storyboard

In order to produce a clear image of the music video we then created a storyboard:

This enabled us to break down the sequence into specific shots and set-ups. Each set-up is represented using different coloured post-it notes. We used yellow for the forest, pink for performance, blue for the balloon set-up, white for the white studio set up and blue with highlighter for the neon scenes.  This meant that we could visualise the sequence and determine the weighting of each set-up. We all had input in the storyboard, each drawing some shots and suggesting ways to adjust the order.This proved incredibly beneficial and led us to move some shots around. For example, we decided to introduce the performance much earlier than previously planned as we felt that it should be a clear part of the video from the beginning.

The storyboard was incredibly important to our planning process as it gave us a visual representation of the music video as opposed to purely written words as we had before. It also enabled us to visualise which shots would work and whether they were in the right place in the sequence.