Storyboard and Animatic

In this blog I will scan in my initial storyboard that I produced before any filming had taken place to outline my original ideas and enable me to be able to follow my plan when on location filming my video. A storyboard is a very vital piece of work in relation to a film or music video, through its ability to enable the director (in this case myself), to pre visualise the video before setting out to record it. It can be used in pre production, to sketch and outline the initial ideas that could prove to be inspirational in producing a good video, there is nothing worse then having a great idea for a shot, then forgetting about it! It can also be referred back to post production to allow the director to see how accurate their film/video is compared to his original plans, and whether or not they stemmed away from the idea they initially had and how accurate the storyboard was.

The storyboard I have created demonstrates my groups idea which is to produce a video shot completly from a first person perspective, we wanted something edgy and uncommon to accompany a track that is one we found difficult to intepret, leading us to make the decision to shoot it from this perspective. Our locations and lighting we are aiming for is dark and very tonal colour balances with an urban, city backdrop. We want the camera to be handheld and strapped to our main protagonist, who's face will never be seen, adding to the mysterious ambience we are aiming to create. This means having a shaky and blurry camera movement, which we aim to look intentional without looking like it has just simply been badly shot. We want this to reflect the protagnists disorientation he is experiencing and create a video that almost breaks a mould and is purposeful in not looking perfect, and as true to reality as possible.

In a storyboard, my proposed idea needs to be put onto paper in a shot by shot format with a sketch for every shot and a detailed description next to it. Each shot is numbered and includes a description of the shot type, movement of the camera and the action and movement within the shot.The storyboard should be ideally around 30 shots long, to allow great detail in portraying an idea that the director has, however at this stage of the process, I do not have a clear enough idea to be able to produce a 30 shot storyboard. I will incorporate the shots I have planned into this blog in the form of small sketches demonstrating my idea, I do have some test footage however I feel it is more beneficial for me to draw the ideas so my idea can be fully expressed. I have a clear idea for the opening of my video, but am not yet sure of how to draw the video to a close and how to develop a narrative into it. In the later blogs, my storyboard will be used to create a shooting script and schedule.