R&P Post 21: My key shots storyboard

The next step after creating a timeline was to make a brief story board of our key shots. The key shots storyboard will give us a visual guide that we can stick to. From past experience, I know that making a storyboard with post-it-notes is the most effective process because we can draw and reorder shots whenever we like. Being able to experiment with the order or take shots out gives us a lot of flexibility that I appreciate in this point in time.

A music video typically has montage style editing and a multitude of shots so it would be improbable for us to draw all of them down. We only drew the shots that we felt were the most important.

Key shots storyboard

In addition to this, I also decided to make a second storyboard that goes into more detail. In it, the varied shot lengths are apparent with the use of different coloured post-it-notes. I think that this clearly conveys our intent to open the music video with extreme close ups. We have used our knowledge that music videos tend to have a lot of different shot types and intercut between them often.

This is the extended storyboard that Gabriel and I created:

Extended storyboard (please click to view in more detail)

I am very glad that we made both storyboards as this will definitely benefit us during our post-production. As a group, we were able to consolidate our ideas and share that with others. It made it easier to explain the sequence of events and I think that storyboarding has helped us take our project to a new level.