Storyboards

Once we had an idea of our music video's structure, we went on to decide the details by making a storyboard. We came up with shots together in production meetings, suggesting ideas that we then discussed as a group before deciding on. Knowing exactly what each shot would be meant we could start thinking about what props we would need - for example, we decided that the 50s shots would include the couple interacting around a jukebox, so we knew we had to find a jukebox to use.

50s set-up shot - couple with jukebox

We found the best way to begin coming up with ideas was to organise our shots by era or set-up rather than chronologically:

The different colours are the different eras (and orange for the band shots). This helped us make sure we were giving similar amounts of screen time to each era, and doing it this way rather than in chronological order of shots meant we could focus on deciding what would actually happen in our video before worrying about the overall structure and details of it, which made it an easier process at this stage.

After we had decided on the shots we then organised them into chronological order:

When this was done, it was much easier to visualise our ideas, because by putting the shots in order we had a clearer sense of what the video would actually look like. We could also then see if the shots would flow together well. Once this was done, we could then move on to make the animatic.